Modular Monolith Architecture
January 20, 2026 · View on GitHub
📘 Resources
📕 Articles
- Modular Monolith: A Primer
- My experience of using modular monolith and DDD architectures
- Modular Monolith: Architectural Drivers
- Modular Monolith: Architecture Enforcement
- MonolithFirst
- Modular programming: Beyond the spaghetti mess
- Migrating Monoliths to Microservices with Decomposition and Incremental Changes
- Decompose your monolith: Ten principles for refactoring a monolith to microservices
- Decompose Your Monolith: Strategies for Migrating to Microservices
- Making Modular Monoliths Work
- Loosely Coupled Monolith Overview
- My experience of using the Clean Code architecture with a Modular Monolith
- My experience of using modular monolith and DDD architectures
- Evolving modular monoliths: 1. An architecture for .NET
- Evolving modular monoliths: 2. Breaking up your app into multiple solutions
- Why using Microservices or Monolith can be just a detail?
- Majestic Modular Monoliths
- SHARING DATA BETWEEN MODULES IN MODULAR MONOLITH
- Event Modeling & Modular Monolith | From colored cards to code through TDD
- Monolithic to Microservices Architecture with Patterns & Best Practices
- Improving Monolith's Availability
- Long live the Monolith! Monolithic Architecture != Big Ball of Mud
- Scaling a Monolith Horizontally
- Good and Bad Monolith
- How to quickly scale a legacy monolith?
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 1 — MVP
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 2— The OutBox Pattern
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 3 — Logging (Serilog and Seq)
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 4— Global Exception Handling
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 5— JWT Authentication/Authorization
- Easy Modular Monolith — Part 6 — Synchronous communication between modules
- Build the modular monolith first
- Thoughts on “Modular Monoliths”
- Actually Talking about Modular Monoliths
- Modular Monoliths and the “Critter Stack”
- Breaking It Down: How to Migrate Your Modular Monolith to Microservices
- Modular Monolith - A Gentle Introduction
- Modular Monolith - Implementation Deep Dive
- Modular Monolith - Simplifying the Inner Development Loop with .NET Aspire
- A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET ⭐
📺 Videos
- GOTO 2018 • Modular Monoliths • Simon Brown
- Modular monoliths (Simon Brown) - 2016
- Modular monoliths by Simon Brown
- Munich .NET Meetup: Modular Monolith Architecture - One to rule them all
- Majestic Modular Monoliths by Axel Fontaine
- Decompose your monolith- when and how to incrementally refactor to microservices
- GOTO 2019 • Monolith Decomposition Patterns • Sam Newman
- GOTO 2016 • From Monolith to Microservices at Zalando • Rodrigue Schaefer
- How to design and code a scaleable solution (from monolith to microservices)
- Deconstructing the Monolith (Shopify Unite Track 2019)
- Message Driven Architecture to DECOUPLE a Monolith
- Long live the Monolith! Monolithic Architecture != Big Ball of Mud
- Scaling Monolithic Applications
- Creating a Loosely Coupled Monolith
- START with a Monolith, NOT Microservices
- Solution & Project Structure of a Loosely Coupled Monolith
- Asynchronous Messaging in a Loosely Coupled Monolith
- Splitting up a Monolith to (micro)Services
- Avoiding a Big Ball of Mud! Coupling in a Monolith
- Building that glorious monolith. And carving it too. - Glenn F. Henriksen - NDC Oslo 2022 ⭐
- A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET - Build Web Scale Monolithic Architectures ⭐
🚀 Samples
- kgrzybek/modular-monolith-with-ddd - Full Modular Monolith application with Domain-Driven Design approach.
- kgrzybek/modular-monolith-with-ddd-fe-react - FrontEnd React application for Modular Monolith With DDD repository and system
- phongnguyend/Practical.CleanArchitecture - Asp.Net Core 5 Clean Architecture (Microservices, Modular Monolith, Monolith) samples.
- dcomartin/LooselyCoupledMonolith
- trueai-org/module-shop
- thangchung/coolstore-moduliths
- thangchung/blog-core - Modular blog using Blazor with clean domain-driven design patterns
- ddd-by-examples/library - A comprehensive Domain-Driven Design example with problem space strategic analysis and various tactical patterns.
- simplcommerce/SimplCommerce - A simple, cross platform, modularized ecommerce system built on .NET Core
- anton-liauchuk/educational-platform - Modular Monolith Java application with DDD
- VirtoCommerce/vc-storefront - VirtoCommerce Storefront for ASP.NET Core 3.1 repository
- grandnode/grandnode - Free and Open Source Ecommerce Shopping Cart solution based on ASP.NET CORE and MongoDB
- smartstore/SmartStoreNET - Open Source ASP.NET MVC Enterprise eCommerce Shopping Cart Solution
- nopSolutions/nopCommerce - The most popular open-source eCommerce shopping cart solution based on ASP.NET Core
- ThreeDotsLabs/monolith-microservice-shop - Source code for https://threedots.tech/post/microservices-or-monolith-its-detail/ article.
- marcinstelmach/AwesomeBank - Bank system in .NET 5.0 using DDD, CQRS, modular monolith architecture
- stemmlerjs/ddd-forum - Hacker news-inspired forum app built with TypeScript using DDD practices from solidbook.io.
- grandnode/grandnode2 - Open source, headless, multi-tenant eCommerce platform built with .NET Core, MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB, Vue.js.
- DarekModzelewski/Contoso-University-DDD
- ttulka/ddd-example-ecommerce - Domain-driven design example in Java with Spring framework
- mgce/modular-monolith-nodejs - A project showing the implementation of the modular monolith architecture in Node.js.
- drminnaar/chinook - A playground for demonstrating concepts such as architecture, design, dotnet core, typescript, react, database and docker
- ttulka/ddd-example-ecommerce-kotlin - Domain-driven design example in Kotlin with Spring framework
- DijanaPenic/DDD-VShop - VShop is a sample .NET 6 application built as Modular Monolith with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach. Each module is an independent vertical slice with its custom architecture.
- Ridikk12/ModularMonolith
- thangchung/coffeeshop-modular - .NET coffee shop application with modular approach
- chrisklug/asp-net-modular-monolith
- Nairda015/IGroceryStore - IGroceryStore - Loosely coupled monolith app
- evolutionary-architecture/evolutionary-architecture-by-example ⭐ - Navigate the complex landscape of .NET software architecture with our step-by-step, story-like guide. Unpack the interplay between modular monoliths, microservices, domain-driven design, and various architectural patterns
- kamilbaczek/Estimation-Tool ⭐ - Modular monolith architecture example in .NET. Estimation Tool is tool to optimize estimation process in IT company.
- baranacikgoz/modular-monolith-ddd-vsa-webapi - A .NET 8 Webapi boilerplate with Modular Monolith approach, Domain-Driven Design and Vertical Slices architecture along with Clean Architecture principles per feature
- kamilbaczek/Modular-monolith-by-example - Modular monolith architecture example in .NET. Estimation Tool is tool to optimize estimation process in IT company.
- PeterKneale/modular_monolith_saas
- youssefbennour/AspNetCore.Starter - A modular-monolith ASP.NET Core starter inspired by Evolutionary-architecture
- CharlieDigital/dn8-modular-monolith ⭐ - A practical example of how to build modular monoliths ("momo") with .NET 8