[bpicolo]

Once you dive into SoA, you see how much sense single-source-repository starts to make. Developing features between <n> different repositories is tedious, and the single-repo gives ample benefits. Having easy-to-work with interface layers like protobuf in a shared repo makes tons of sense, for example.

It's interesting to see how things like Golang may well have evolved out of this problem. Calculating a golang app's dependencies is as trivial as a grep or two, so it's easy to know what tests to run when libraries change.

[shcallaway]

At the very least, this experience has made me question the conventional wisdom that microservices = good and monolith = bad.

[cle]

That's conventional wisdom? Outside of loud naive bloggers preaching that microservices solve the world's problems, most engineers I've chatted to IRL have been pretty skeptical of the overall utility of microservice architectures because of the high complexity they add.

[pbreit]

Conventional wisdom has always been and remains the opposite.