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Re:Monorepos: Please don’t by bpicolo on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:07AM (#18814749)
At a past job, I had to edit roughly 5 different repositories in order to do some trivial programming task (send an email or some such). It was quite easily the least productive / most demoralizing workflow I've ever experienced.

Context switching really sucks. You should aim to reasonably avoid it

Re:Monorepos: Please don’t by joevandyk on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:07PM (#18821106)
Sending an email can have a few different responsibilities:

Who is the email being sent to?

What is the content of the email?

What data does the email content and recipient depend on?

What are you tracking on the email?

How is the email visually formatted?

All those things might be in different apps as the logic gets more complicated.

Re:Monorepos: Please don’t by kanu666 on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:02PM (#18829410)
Don't mix up downsides of multirepo and bad composition of your microservices