• A single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform. A monolithic application is self-contained, and independent from other computing applications. In its original use, the term “monolithic” described enormous mainframe applications with no usable modularity. This, in combination with rapid increase in computational power and therefore rapid increase in the complexity of the problems which could be tackled by software, resulted in unmaintainable systems and the “software crisis.” ← Wikipedia

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