Can't we just generalize the package manager already and push it into VCS? I just want to commit some code and roll it out in the next release. Somewhere in the tree is a top level makefile or something. Stop making this complicated.
When it comes to scale, force versions to be incremented at the same time across the lot. You can even spin up a new deploy set and gracefully handoff load.
My point is. Just let the source code, in whatever language, be distributed as packages in as modular a way as developers want. One way or another you're going to end up with a makefile or shell script that builds the damn thing. If you don't, then someone fucked up and your build is effectively broken. Monorepo or not.
> My point is. Just let the source code, in whatever language, be distributed as packages in as modular a way as developers want. One way or another you're going to end up with a makefile or shell script that builds the damn thing. If you don't, then someone fucked up and your build is effectively broken. Monorepo or not.
The point of a monorepo is that it is not at all modular. You can upgrade shared dependencies all in one go. You can make systems-wide changes with confidence. The monorepo lets you move everything together in lockstep.
Monorepos also allow for incredible sharing potential, but that's less of a selling point.
Yeah, kinda. If you've got a frontend (e.g. phone app) and a backend, you still need to think about your upgrade scenarios. You probably still need some concept of versioning so you can keep track of keeping backend support for whatever apps will still be in the wild for a while.
I say this as a big fan of monorepos - they're great but they don't solve all problems.
For sure. You're not even absolved of deploying internal microservices in the correct order during certain classes of migrations, or even changing fields within a single service. Systems at scale are hard and require discipline.
When it comes to scale, force versions to be incremented at the same time across the lot. You can even spin up a new deploy set and gracefully handoff load.
My point is. Just let the source code, in whatever language, be distributed as packages in as modular a way as developers want. One way or another you're going to end up with a makefile or shell script that builds the damn thing. If you don't, then someone fucked up and your build is effectively broken. Monorepo or not.