&gt; The thing that DHH is failing to mention is that Monoliths work great when your application looks something like Basecamp.<p>The thing that people fail to grasp is that (almost) <i>everything</i> DHH writes is in the context of &quot;when your application looks something like Basecamp&quot; :-)
I&#x27;ve been following 37signals&#x2F;Basecamp since 2002, I think (long before Rails) and they&#x27;ve always made it clear that their opinions&#x2F;advice are _not_ universal, because they only speak from experience - _their_ experience.
So, if you&#x27;re not in a similar situation as theirs, then of course their arguments are going to look strawman-ish to you.