On: Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application

[bpicolo]

> Except by itself it does little

True of every SaaS and most applications. Take every Office product, for exampe

[badrabbit → bpicolo]

No,you can edit text,spreadsheets,etc...with office apps without using other programs. With ES you need some other separate program (even just curl) as opposed to the user interacting with the apps UI directly.