Omphile Matheolane speaking at DDD Europe 2025
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Argues that the real problem with monoliths is not choosing them but the unmanaged complexity inside them and that teams confuse essential complexity (inherent to the domain) with accidental complexity (from poor design). Cites John Oenheart’s definition that complexity is anything that makes a system hard to understand and modify and pushes for design changes that reduce accidental structure rather than blaming the monolithic architecture itself.
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