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Monolithic Applications

Monolithic applications are designed after a lot of consultation with the

client. At the end of the consultation period each side sign off on the

agreed objectives and outputs of the application and designers then
design the application. The programming of the application is executed
and the program goes for testing, acceptance and QA. During this

process any problems that stem from the original research, or from the

original design or form the implementation or from the hardware
specification etc. all come out and it can take multiple iterations before

the acceptance is complete and each fix must flow down to the lower
layers before it is proven to work. This method of development is often

referred to as “Waterfall”. Even simple changes to the program can
require a full test again and badly structured code can result in real

difficulty fault finding. Many of the world’s biggest it failures come from
Waterfall developments.

Scaling to meet demand means deploying on a larger physical server.

That can result in a lot of wasted expenditure if the demand is seasonal.

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