The Return of the Monolith: Architecture in the AI Era
Microservices were never primarily a technical pattern. They were an organisational one: a way to let fifty teams deploy independently. AI agents knock out both legs of that argument – small teams now ship what used to take departments, and agents work best when they can see the whole system at once. The modular monolith becomes the pragmatic default. Not out of nostalgia, but out of arithmetic.