The Pain of the Monolith and the Promise of Microservices Imagine your engineering team is celebrating a minor bug fix, not because the fix itself was complex, but because testing it in lower environments took hours and getting it deployed took a week. If this resonates with you, you’re likely working with a monolithic application. Now imagine a request for a new feature in said application (Yuck!). Monolithic architectures with their massive, tightly coupled designs, have be