For a monolithic application, traditional software development processes, such as waterfall processes, are most suitable. This is because a monolithic application usually has large teams working on a single deployment artifact.

As we have discussed, a monolithic application is a single artifact, built as a single unit. This means that it handles the HTTP requests and executes business logic using DAOs to retrieve data from the underlying database at the server-side. However, with a monolithic application, if any changes are made to the application, another version of the entire application will need to be built. Fortunately, this is where the microservice architecture pattern can come to the rescue.