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Scaling Teams and Managing Source Code
This chapter discusses the challenges of scaling teams and managing source code in a growing infrastructure. The speaker reflects on the evolution from a monolithic system to breaking up the code into smaller, independent parts. They highlight issues with code conflicts, long compilation cycles, and difficulties understanding and testing the overall system. The chapter concludes by explaining how the company gradually extracted and organized teams around standalone functionalities to handle scale requirements more effectively.