[djsumdog]

I've only done direct pairing twice. It can help come up with a game plan and get new people in the company up to speed, but it is terribly terrible stressful.

I don't like it. I think small services, incremental changes, strong tests and solid code reviews all work much better. Especially the tests and code reviews. At my last shop the company had an internal Gitlab and we used the Gitlab CI. Reviews + CI really helped keep the coding standards pretty high and helped younger devs not make beginner Scala mistakes coming from a Java background.