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Typically, "monolith" implies services - ie, the "backing services" from a traditional 12-factor monolith:

- https://12factor.net/backing-services

Monolith vs. Microservices comes about because microservices proponents specifically set it up as an alternative to a traditional monolith + services stack:

- https://www.nginx.com/learn/microservices-architecture/#:~:t...




> Typically, "monolith" implies services - ie, the "backing services"

I don't know if that's a common interpretation - in the monolith-loving companies I've worked with it very much meant a single ball of code (e.g. huge Rails app), not separate services.




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