However, monolithic systems face challenges, such as limited scalability, difficulty with deploying updates and a vulnerability to single points of failure. Created on Canva by the author .

In the red corner, weighing in with independent scalability and distributed complexity: microservices! In the blue corner, the reigning legacy champion, with its infamous deployment challenges ...

The Data Architecture Crisis: Why Legacy Systems Are Holding Businesses Back For decades, organizations have approached data architecture with a monolithic mindset—centralized platforms, complex ...

Microservices architecture requires more of an Agile organization in terms of the way teams are organized -- meaning more interactive and incremental approaches to rolling out software.