Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles - Evaluate: Modular Monolithic Architecture with SPA

The video tutorial discusses the architecture of a single-page application (SPA) for an e-commerce platform, highlighting the separation of UI, frontend, and backend components. It outlines the benefits of the current design, such as ease of development, debugging, deployment, and flexibility. However, it also addresses the drawbacks, particularly scalability issues due to a monolithic backend and a single relational database that becomes a bottleneck. The tutorial emphasizes the challenges of scaling databases compared to stateless application servers and provides an example of scaling difficulties during peak times, like a discount season.

What are the benefits of the current architecture of the ecommerce application?

What are the scalability limits mentioned in the architecture?

What challenges are faced when trying to scale the database in the current architecture?

How does the architecture handle a high volume of requests during peak times?

In what ways can the backend application be scaled independently?