Reasons to Flatten your Source Code

"Extrinsic aspects" are those things that shouldn't be "embedded" within the source code. These include complex domain hierarchies and extrinsic features that make it expensive and difficult to maintain and operate. Software is a large castle, formed by several layers superimposed and mixed, in order to facilitate its own maintenance, but which, in fact, end up creating the opposite effect: a true monolith. Cloud-based software does not necessarily need to be hosted by a cloud service provider, such as Google Cloud.