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Another problem is confusing causal effects from confounders. Did a monorepo cause success, or did they succeed in spite of a monorepo. Studying individual case
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
Another problem is confusing causal effects from confounders. Did a monorepo cause success, or did they succeed in spite of a monorepo. Studying individual cases for which there could never have been a counterfactual outcome (e.g. FB or Google) literally cannot provide evidence of a causal effect.
- aidenn0 8y agoThat's essentially what I was saying. We have evidence that it is possible to be successful with both a monorepo and a polyrepo setup, which is perhaps uninteresting other than to contradict people saying that either setup is guaranteed to be an unmitigated disaster. We also, however, have subjective feedback from people working on those teams as to how they think it would have been different. It's not rigorous data, but it shouldn't be altogether ignored either, particularly since rigorous data is so hard to come by.