Monolithic architecture

The monolithic architectural style is a traditional architecture type and has been widely used in the industry. The term monolithic is not new and is borrowed from the Unix world. In Unix, most of the commands exist as a standalone program whose functionality is not dependent on any other program. As seen in the succeeding image, we can have different components in the application such as:

  • User interface: This handles all of the user interaction while responding with HTML or JSON or any other preferred data interchange format (in the case of web services).
  • Business logic: All the business rules applied to the input being received in the form of user input, events, and database exist here.
  • Database access: This houses ...

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