Monorepo: The Journey Back. The Story of Modularization
summary
A Badoo iOS engineer recounts the nine-year evolution of their repository and project structure, from 2009 through cycles of monorepo → multiple repos → back to a monorepo. The talk names concrete tools and approaches they tried—CocoaPods, Carthage, static libraries, frameworks, workspaces and xcodeproj files, code copying vs reuse—and explains how moving to a modular monorepo improved iOS team scaling and individual developer productivity.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34Journey to monorepo
- 5:27First steps: modules
- 9:18CocoaPods adoption
- 13:08Modularization platform
- 21:26Two repo problems
- 26:53Git Submodule
- 32:30Monorepo transition
- 38:33CocoaPods conflicts
- 43:13Current state
- 43:58Q&A
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