> Google has shown the monolithic model of source code management can scale to a repository of one billion files, 35 million commits, and tens of thousands of developers.
> Benefits include unified versioning, extensive code sharing, simplified dependency management, atomic changes, large-scale refactoring, collaboration across teams, flexible code ownership, and code visibility.
> Drawbacks include having to create and scale tools for development and execution and maintain code health, as well as potential for codebase complexity (such as unnecessary dependencies)
> Key insights
> Google has shown the monolithic model of source code management can scale to a repository of one billion files, 35 million commits, and tens of thousands of developers.
> Benefits include unified versioning, extensive code sharing, simplified dependency management, atomic changes, large-scale refactoring, collaboration across teams, flexible code ownership, and code visibility.
> Drawbacks include having to create and scale tools for development and execution and maintain code health, as well as potential for codebase complexity (such as unnecessary dependencies)