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Linux kernel has a huge amount of contributors with their own goals and they seem to coordinate just fine. Monoliths can scale, but they can't be "owned"/lever

• dralley 4y ago
  The linux kernel is more siloed than one might expect, a lot of code is architecture specific or in drivers, which facilitates having a wide group of maintainers.
  • mpweiher 4y ago
    EXACTLY. It shows that you can have a siloed monolith.
• surajrmal 4y ago
  Linux development is absolutely hampered by being a monolith. Getting involved in Linux development is notoriously difficult. The average developer won't consider it even though there are many parts of the kernel which very much should be approachable. It is also hard to get some patches upstream if the goals of said patches don't align with everyone else's interests. There are even people exploring userspace schedulers to get around these challenges. There are also huge maintenance burdens that come from the lack of stable interfaces for modules. There is a reason there is a lot of excitement around ebpf. It is providing the sort of scaling that people have been needing for a while.
• christophilus 4y ago
  Not true. Sociopaths always find a way.