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One of the big advantages of the monorepo is actually that it prevents technical debt from accumulating. If a change somewhere else breaks your code, you can't
by oxguy3 8y ago
One of the big advantages of the monorepo is actually that it prevents technical debt from accumulating. If a change somewhere else breaks your code, you can't put off dealing with it -- you are forced to fix the issue immediately.
- paulie_a 8y agoThat makes a lot of sense and I definitely like the idea of that. Unfortunately unless you either spend a tremendous amount of effort in a legacy system to make that reality, or start with a new green field, it's not realistic day to day.
- erik_seaberg 8y agoTech debt is a useful tool and we shouldn't have zero tolerance. I can see wanting to deprecate old versions promptly, but I can't see instantly deprecating every old version with no workaround for mitigating emergencies.