First, I agree with you about companies worrying prematurely or unnecessarily about “google scale”. You saw this a lot in the NoSQL hype days. You can go pretty

First, I agree with you about companies worrying prematurely or unnecessarily about “google scale”. You saw this a lot in the NoSQL hype days. You can go pretty darn far with even a single MySQL instance. Second, source level dependencies bs binary level dependencies has s a choice and a commitment. Even at large companies release schedules can really hinder you. I didn’t hear about the JUnit issue but I can believe it. With code bases this large you have to get really good at static analysis (dynamic languages are your enemy here), tooling for refactoring and just general hygiene of the code baee.