this is 100% not what a distributed monolith is a distributed monolith is an antipattern that's common to badly executed microservices -- it's essentially an e

this is 100% not what a distributed monolith is a distributed monolith is an antipattern that's common to badly executed microservices -- it's essentially an epithet, in no sense a design goal what's being described here is an _elegant_ monolith, which is entirely different, and definitely does not provide the property that independent libraries can be deployed and scaled independently