Ask HN: How man monorepos does Google have?

4 points by weinzierl 3 days ago

I see the benefits of a monorepo but cannot imagine the scalability issues being solvable, especially not in large companies with many projects. How serious are these claims of FAANG and other big companies to use a monorepo. Are they really putting all their eggs in one basket or do they have in reallity many "monorepos" with not just a single project in them?

I know that at Google Android is separate, but apart from that: How many repos are there really?

What about other companies that claim they went monorepo?

I am also curious about any statistics for monorepos, like size, commits per day, etc? Is older data archived and ever removed from the active repo?