Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Interview)

Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microservices back to monorepo. 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child.

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Featuring:

• Alexandra Noonan – GitHub
• Calvin French-Owen – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Segment says goodbye microservices
• Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar · Segment Blog
• Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day · Segment Blog

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