Monolith vs Microservice
Domain: Computer Systems
🎯 Motivation
Monolith: all code in one application. Microservice: split into small services. Each has trade-offs.
📋 Concrete Example
Monolith: one big Python app. Easy to develop, hard to scale. Microservices: 10 small services. Harder to manage, but each scales independently and one crash does not take down everything.
🔗 Analogy
A monolith is like a general store - everything in one shop. Easy to manage but hard to expand. Microservices are like a shopping mall - many specialized stores. Harder to manage but each can grow independently.