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I've never seen an article from a large company saying "we use multiple repos and it's great". Setting as all large companies seem to end up monorepo, I'm guessing in practice it is better.

I'd be happy to see a counter-example, but I've not seen one yet.



Amazon I think is the notable exception to the monorepo preference at large companies. But they have no lack of their own custom tooling to make multiple repos work.


Nobody is going to write a blogpost "we use multiple repos and it's ok for us". And that is the majority of companies.

Heck, even most individual developers use multiple repos.

Monorepos are usually ok (and even talking about team/project granularity) until you outgrow it.

Buildsystems like one-repo-per-project much better than monorepos. (Shipping a fix doesn't require rebuilding "the whole world" for example)




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