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Coffee With Developers • Nov 6, 2024

How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%

Jonathan Creamer

Microsoft's monorepo inexplicably ballooned to 170GB due to a legacy 2006 Git flaw. Discover how a small team fixed the core algorithm to shrink clone sizes by 94%.

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#1 about 2 min

Managing Microsoft's massive global UI monorepo

An overview of the One JS engineering system supporting thousands of active developers.

#2 about 4 min

Investigating massive Git repository growth from changelog strategies

How standard changelog practices and tool integrations caused an unprecedented increase in Git repository size.

#3 about 7 min

Investigating push inefficiencies with upstream Git experts

Discovering that adding tiny text lines to large JSON files triggered massive file push sizes due to Azure DevOps packing rules.

#4 about 4 min

Uncovering a legacy object hashing collision in Git

How a 2006 file name hashing limitation forced unchanged files to be completely re-pushed.

#5 about 4 min

Re-architecting Git packing with path walk algorithms

Implementing a path-based traversal algorithm to correctly compute file deltas during repository repacking and pushing.

#6 about 3 min

Resolving repository bloat with specific Git configurations

Which Git configurations developers can set locally to resolve pushing and repacking issues.

#7 about 2 min

Analyzing massive blobs with the Git survey command

How a new native built-in utility replaces external Python tools to identify problematic binaries.

#8 about 6 min

Avoiding common large file pitfalls inside massive repositories

Strategies for preventing generated text, visual regression artifacts, and binaries from inflating Git history.

#9 about 4 min

Developing an open-source first engineering team culture

The benefits of contributing internal monorepo tooling fixes back into the broader developer community ecosystem.

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