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Ask HN: Working with a monolithic codebase

Junior dev, about 6 months out of college at a smallish (~20 engineers) software company. Monolithic java codebase that all runs on a single cluster of app servers. I've been feeling frustrated lately and wanted some advice.The most common comment in my code reviews: "You're reinventing the wheel - we already wrote something similar. Take a look at [X], extend it a bit to fit this use case,...

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