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Yes. A monolith describes how the main application is packaged, not a ban on external services. Email delivery, storage, and authentication may still use separate providers.
What factors determine whether an application should use a monolithic architecture?
Can a monolithic wedding app still use an external email service?
More FAQs in What factors determine whether an application should use a monolithic architecture?
No. Microservices generally involve independently deployable services with network boundaries. Folders and internal modules improve code organization without changing the application's deployment architecture by themselves.
Evidence might include independent ownership, sustained delivery workload, or a runtime requirement that the main application cannot meet efficiently. Evaluate those needs against the operational cost of separation.
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