A monolith refers to a software application that is deployed as a single
physical deployment. Many monolithic applications lack sufficient structure
and end up becoming Big Balls of Mud. By contrast, a modular monolith breaks
up the application into logical modules which are largely independent from one
another. This provides many of the benefits of more distributed approaches like
microservices without the overhead of deploying and managing a distributed
application. In this course, you�ll learn how to get started building a
modular monolith application using a real world sample, the RiverBooks ecommerce site.
Steve "ardalis" Smith is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable applications using Microsoft's developer tools.