Monolithic ਆਰਕੀਟੈਕਚਰ ਇੱਕ ਐਪਲੀਕੇਸ਼ਨ ਨੂੰ ਇੱਕ ਸਿੰਗਲ ਯੂਨੀਫਾਈਡ ਯੂਨਿਟ ਵਜੋਂ ਬਣਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜਦਕਿ microservices ਆਰਕੀਟੈਕਚਰ ਇਸਨੂੰ ਕਈ ਛੋਟੀਆਂ, ਸਿੱਧੀ ਸੇਵਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਬਣਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਹਰੇਕ ਕੋਲ ਜਟਿਲਤਾ, ਸਕੇਲਬਿਲਟੀ, ਡਿਪਲੋਇਮੈਂਟ, ਅਤੇ ਟੀਮ ਆਰਗਨਾਈਜੇਸ਼ਨ ਦੇ ਆਸਪਾਸ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨ ਟ੍ਰੇਡ-ਆਫ ਹਨ।
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
