Monolithische architectuur bouwt een applicatie als één uniforme eenheid, terwijl microservices architectuur het bouwt als veel kleine, onafhankelijke services. Beide hebben significante afwegingen met betrekking tot complexiteit, schaalbaarheid, deployment en teamorganisatie.
Monoliet versus 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
