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by robust-cactus
1371 days ago
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I agree with this take. The companies I've worked at that have had multi-repos basically just obfuscated related pieces of code - ultimately leading to lots of bugs. The fact that I can grep across services is a godsend. I think we should all actively be fighting against Conway's law: "your code resembles your org structure". Multi-repos are usually a thin facade that basically end up supporting this and makes it harder to dev in and make the architecture typically worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law |
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I think the inverse of that, the org mirroring the code, happens as well. And maybe Conway really meant that, too.
I would argue that we should be organizing code in a way that we'd like our teams to be organized. We should use this as a tool for devs to self-organize. Eventually, management will see the cost savings in organizing the people similarly.