The Importance of Sharing State in Atomic Architecture

In atomic architecture, what we're saying is that of course, can't coordinate everybody's activities around a monolith. We don't want to go back to a monolith where absolutely every kind of feature is packed within one code base. But rather than break up the monolith into separate microservices, we're saying just to steal the thing that we really want to have in one place, which is the state.