the word "Monolith" or "monolithic" has become negatively connoted and the internet is full praising distributed (in form of microservices or even serverless) systems as the ultimate solution to any problem. In this talk i will show you that this is in fact an antipattern calles Cargo Cult Development, and that in many cases a well modularized monolithic design can save you a lot of headaches. I will show why distributed systems can be more complex than the internet tells you and how you can decide on your own, based on facts rather than propaganda, which design is right for your current project.