Wow, that's quite an unusual profile. Good for you guys that you've been able to decompose things into thousands of relatively self-contained apps. It's a rea

Wow, that's quite an unusual profile. Good for you guys that you've been able to decompose things into thousands of relatively self-contained apps. It's a really interesting situation. Part of me wants to say that this doesn't really qualify as a "large codebase" as referred to by the OP. I tend to think of "large" as hundreds of thousands of lines and up. But I certainly don't want to marginalize the experience of an organization maintaining 30 million lines of code in 10k chunks. Your experience definitely suggests there is great value in decomposing things into small self-contained pieces. But I would say that strong static type systems are better at helping you do that than weak dynamic type systems. It can certainly be done in dynamic languages, but it requires more discipline.