Re:Monorepos
by fsloth on Saturday August 29, 2015 @12:54PM
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Hi, yeah, sure, effective communication requires simplification.
A few points got me concerned in the slides - namely, concerning emphasizing how easy this makes to change things. I would consider that it is not a positive thing that adding a library is cheap and easy, and I find that component versioning can be bypassed even more so.
It all sounds like grievous local greedy optimization without a view of the entire lifecycle of the codebase. The slides say change is the only constant. I would claim that unless the change is backed by good and strong architecture - which throwing all architectural firewalls away does not support - then the end result will be a mess of spaghetti the older the codebase gets.
But, I may just be too much set in my ways of coding and I respect the fact that these may be non-issues in the particular domain these slides address.
A few points got me concerned in the slides - namely, concerning emphasizing how easy this makes to change things. I would consider that it is not a positive thing that adding a library is cheap and easy, and I find that component versioning can be bypassed even more so.
It all sounds like grievous local greedy optimization without a view of the entire lifecycle of the codebase. The slides say change is the only constant. I would claim that unless the change is backed by good and strong architecture - which throwing all architectural firewalls away does not support - then the end result will be a mess of spaghetti the older the codebase gets.
But, I may just be too much set in my ways of coding and I respect the fact that these may be non-issues in the particular domain these slides address.