I agree with this, and also I’m confused by the article’s argument—wouldn’t this apply equally to components within a monolith? Or is the idea that—within a monolith—all failures in any component can bring down the entire system anyway?

> wouldn’t this apply equally to components within a monolith?

It's a nearly universal rule you'll want on every kind of infrastructure and data organization.

You can get away for some time with making things linked by offline or pre-stored resources, but it's a recipe for an eventual disaster.