Better Living Through Github Bots
Editor’s Note: This is the third post in the Palantir Foundations series exploring how we customize infrastructure software for reliable operation at scale. Palantir maintains approximately 6,000 repositories that touch production, spanning microservices, configuration-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, and other combinations. Each service owns its own repository, which teams independently operate. We refer to this layout as the “polyrepo.” This architecture enables team autonomy, but it introduces a coordination problem when a developer needs to apply a cross-cutting change across thousands of repositories: a widely used dependency upgrade; a CI configuration change; or a wide migration. The cost scales linearly with the number of repos. The same class of problem appears in monorepos as the
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