the.com/monolithic
One giant block of stone, now also one giant block of bureaucracy that won't budge.
means Describes something massive, uniform, and rigidly unified — treated as a single immovable whole that resists change or variation.
from From Greek monos (single) plus lithos (stone): literally one stone, an unbroken slab carved or standing alone, no joins, no seams.
Software senseOne codebase doing everything, the bane of microservices fans.
Real monolithsSingle-rock obelisks, like Egypt's towering granite spires.
Movie fameKubrick's black slab made the word iconic.