Over the last few years, in parallel to working with several small applications, I had the opportunity to work on four different monolithic applications in varied domains--insurance, banking, and health care. All these applications had very similar challenges. In this section, we will start with looking at the characteristics of monoliths and then look at the challenges they bring in.
First of all: What is a monolith? An application with a lot of code--may be greater than 100K lines of code? Yeah.
For me, monoliths are those applications for which getting a release out to production is a big challenge. Applications that fall into this category have a number of user requirements that are immediately needed, but these applications are able to do new feature releases once every few months. Some of these applications even do feature releases...
