Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
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Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#2(published July 2016)
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#3(published July 2016)
Also, it's a PDF link
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#4Here's a talk version given by Rachel (one of the authors) about the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#5This is from the golden age of Google.
Of particular note is that they published this many years after it had been shipped to their internal customers. This was not some position paper about "why we focus on ai" after not shipping any of their "breakthroughs".
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#6I really wish they would make this tech available via gcloud. Seems like it would be very popular and a great way to attract other gcloud business away from MS/GitHub which scales horribly.
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#7(published July 2016)
Also, it's a PDF link
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
There you go, PDF free version.
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#8I really wish they would make this tech available via gcloud. Seems like it would be very popular and a great way to attract other gcloud business away from MS/GitHub which scales horribly.
They tried that by making a bit available with a remote cloud builder for Bazel. It failed for some reason and they pulled it.
I think building something that scales for one big repo is just a completely different problem than making it scale for a lot of small repos.
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#9No wonder noone at Google can't ship everything if they constantly have to stop development of their feature so they can do mandatory upgrades of their dependencies...
Re: Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
#10Monorepos are great... but only if you can invest in the tooling scale to handle them, and most companies can't invest in that like Google can. Hyrum Wright class tooling experts don't grow on trees.
A good article to reference when this topic gets raised: http://yosefk.com/blog/dont-ask-if-a-monorepo-is-good-for-yo...