Monolithic architecture tibni applikazzjoni bħala unit unifikat wieħed, filwaqt li microservices architecture tibniha bħala ħafna servizzi żgħar u indipendenti. Kull waħda għandha trade-offs sinifikanti madwar il-komplexità, skalabilità, deployment, u organizzazzjoni tal-tim.
Monolith vs microservices
MONOLITH → the whole application as ONE deployable unit (one codebase, one process):
✓ SIMPLE → easier to develop, test, deploy, and debug initially; no distributed complexity
✗ at scale → harder to scale parts independently; large codebase gets complex; one
deploy for everything; a bug can affect all
MICROSERVICES → many small, INDEPENDENT services (each owns a capability + its data):
✓ independent SCALING, DEPLOYMENT, and teams; tech flexibility; fault isolation
✗ DISTRIBUTED COMPLEXITY → network calls, data consistency across services, deployment/
operations complexity, debugging across services, more infrastructure
