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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by kuschku on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:32PM (#10228744)
The article claimed the code, and they way it's run, is a monolithically developed and deployed product.

If that’s not the case, I apologize for misunderstanding it.

But if it was the case, I wanted to state that it might not be wise, for the same reasons as this thread mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195423

EDIT: Thanks for telling me, though! Always nice to be proven wrong, as at least I learnt something today :D

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by Filligree on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:49PM (#10228845)
It's not the case.

You should think of Piper as a single filesystem which permits atomic multi-file edits. And that's about it; there's nothing in that which forces any particular release structure on you.

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by spectral321 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:50PM (#10228860)
The talk did mention (briefly) that monolithic codebase and monolithic binaries/software aren't strictly related. It's likely that monolithic software is easier in a monolithic codebase, but I don't think that microservices are harder in a monolithic codebase. Yes, we tend to statically link, but that's for library dependencies (i.e. things like the protocol buffers libraries/definitions). I don't work at all in this area, so this is a guess, but I imagine that it's extremely rare for unrelated teams to have application logic linked into the same binary - just making a release would involve coordination from so many teams :)
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