Chikahiro Tokoro argues that the monolith is not the real problem — God objects are. He surveys the monolith-vs-microservices pendulum, recommends the modular monolith, and shows how to refactor God objects using better modeling (DRY understood as knowledge, DDD) plus incremental releases via techniques like Strangler Fig, feature flags, and shadow traffic.
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