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Bloat and the failure to remove broken/bad legacy code have nothing to do with monorepos.

"Hey, what does this server do?"

"No idea; it hasn't been touched in years. What's deployed to it?"

"Some 'foobar-ng' thing, never heard of that. Says it was last updated 5 years ago. Pull up our source repo for that package, will you?"

"Hang on, we've got like 30 services with names containing 'foobar', let me find that one . . . oh god. You don't wanna know."

"Fuck it, I'm just gonna shut this server down and remove that ancient, dead, busted package."

"The main billing system just broke! What did you do?!"




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