Monorepos & Spaceships – Navigating Successfully Through Code and Cosmos

Yes, monorepos can be adopted incrementally by grouping projects that make sense together, allowing for flexibility in organizing code.

Dan is a metaphorical character representing developers. He is described as a mechanic who fixes spaceships, symbolizing the tasks and challenges faced by developers.

The main topic of the talk is about monorepos, their benefits, and how they compare to polyrepos in software development.

Polyrepos refer to a structure where each team or project has its own repository. Advantages include team autonomy, technological freedom, and a cleanly separated architecture.

Challenges include inefficient code sharing, high code duplication, complex dependency management, and isolation, which can harm collaboration.

A monorepo is a single repository containing multiple distinct projects with well-defined relationships, allowing for easier code sharing and collaboration.

Monorepos offer benefits such as atomic changes, reduced code duplication, consistent tooling, and improved velocity, safety, and mobility in development.

Monorepos allow changes to be made across multiple projects with a single PR, reducing overhead and encouraging code sharing by simplifying the process.

Yes, teams can still have autonomy over their code, tools, and deployment within a monorepo, but a basic level of collaboration and agreement on certain tools is needed.

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