Core message of Chikahiro Tokoro's wroclove.rb 2025 talk. The complaints people level at monoliths (not scalable, slow to deploy, hard to maintain, unclear boundaries, hard to debug) are almost always symptoms of God objects inside them — Shopify and Facebook prove monoliths can ship and scale. Blaming the technology (Rails, Java, COBOL, the monolith) distracts from the real modeling problem.