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title: "Monolith"
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/glossary/monolith/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/glossary/monolith.png"
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# Monolith

A software development architecture wherein your application is built as a
single unit -- front-end, back-end, and database. Until fairly recently, this is
how all software was written.