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Re: The Continuous Delivery Test

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Ya.. my company does all of that. It's just the people process that makes everything slow. Well, mostly the people process. Having millions of dependencies doesn't help with build and test times either. Usually up to 20 min to run something.

> Having millions of dependencies doesn't help with build and test times either. Usually up to 20 min to run something. I feel that pain! Honestly working with monoliths and older and larger projects is very demotivating. Now, I'm not saying that you need to go full on microservices either, but working with a few smaller services instead of a single huge one has been a game changer in my experience! I'm not sure I ev…

We do use microservices, but even then it's still slow AF. I'm not entirely sure why, I guess just via the code dependencies it includes nearly everything. It's all C++ which probably doesn't help.

Re: The Continuous Delivery Test

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I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Mono-repo is entirely a different concept then centralized (eg: SVN) vs distributed (eg: git). I'd also seriously question an org not using git, specifically, despite claiming "cargo cult". Literally every developer knows it, it's got a huge choice of tooling, and every service/tool (CI/CD, issue tracker, etc) has an integration. IMHO, you better have a damn good reason to be…

Even Microsoft manages Windows using Git today

> Microsoft developed the Git Virtual File System to be able to get the benefits of using Git without having to wait hours for even the simplest of Git commands to run.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/microsoft-now-uses-git-and...

Sounds like it's git but begrudgingly.

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