Monorepo and Building at Scale with Benjy Weinberger
Semaphore Uncut · Semaphore CI/CD Weekly
April 13, 202124m 59s
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Show Notes
In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, I talk to Benjy Weinberger, co-founder of Toolchain. We discuss the open-source build tool, 'Pants', and hear Benjy's views on the monorepo strategy for managing your codebase.
Key takeaways:
- Pants: a fast, scalable build system
- Explicit modelling of dependencies is key to Pants performance
- Monorepo gives visibility and ownership of the effects of your changes
- Monorepo helps avoid dependency hell
- How Pants works: a concrete example
- Tools to make adopting Pants easy
- How to contribute to Pants V2
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