> Interestingly, the concept of PHP prevents exactly such problems, as a monolith written in PHP only ever executes the code paths that are necessary for the re

> Interestingly, the concept of PHP prevents exactly such problems, as a monolith written in PHP only ever executes the code paths that are necessary for the respective workload. This is just lovely when you have hundreds of PHP endpoints written by your predecessors and each endpoint has rewritten an arbitrary slice of the stack (usually data model layer) because there is no common code path required. Refactoring anything below the html layer becomes impossible. In fact, calling it a software monolith is misleading, because each PHP script is its own little microservice with poorly-defined API boundaries.