This contributed piece is from a speaker at Node.js Interactive Europe, an event offering an in-depth look at the future of Node.js from the developers who are driving the code forward, taking place in Amsterdam from September 15 to September 18.
Most software projects start with solving one problem. Then comes another one and the project continues growing without the engineering team being able to cope with it.
This is how monoliths are built. Every new feature gets added to the existing application making it more and more complex. Scaling becomes hard and resource-wasting since everything has to be scaled together. Deployment turns into a nightmare thanks to the million lines of code waiting to be pushed into production every time. Meanwhile, management will encounter grave challenges with coordinating large, siloed teams interfering with each other.
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