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Multirepo vs Monorepo: Which one to choose?

Choosing between Multirepo and Monorepo depends on various factors such as Tooling infrastructure and investment, build challenges, source code version control, large scale refactoring and engineering culture. Monorepo is used by Google and Facebook while Multirepo is used by Amazon and Netfilx

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Multirepo explained

Multirepo is a software architecture which means a separate repository for each project. Each project is an independent working unit. It has minimum tooling investment and is in use at companies such as Amazon and Netflix.

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Monorepo explained

Monorepo is a repository that contains more than one logical project. It comes with several advantages such as collaboration among various teams and at the same time, disadvantages such as massive tooling and infrastructure investment Monorepo architecture is followed by Google, Facebook and Twitter