Monoliths are the enemy 

Attack and dethrone monoliths

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Monoliths are the putative prime numbers of engineering. The design assumes n=1 sui generis idiosyncratic nature as necessary. There is only 0 to 1. Going 1 to n is haram.  Unbundling is violent death. There is no factorization. Reality has no carvable joints.

Kidding aside, monoliths are the opposite of protocols, modularity, composability etc

Wondering what an explicit philosophy of monolithicism would look like. Most arise out of lack of a design vision and a big ball of mud non-architecture. And a studied indifference or even hostility to generalizability.

Reminds me of niall Ferguson's book: The Tower and the Square. We are the square, one with no walls and checkpoints.