Monolith
An application built as one large unit, as opposed to microservices. Spent a decade as an insult, currently being rehabilitated by everyone who tried the alternative.
Heard in the wild
“The monolith is ugly but deploys in one piece and never surprises us.”
Tone check: Technical
The monolith-vs-microservices pendulum swings every five years. Boring architectures pay salaries either way.