Does Google Use a Monorepo

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter all employ very large monorepos with varying strategies to scale build systems and version control software with a large volume of code and daily changes.

Does Google still use a monorepo?

Google uses the single monorepo for 95% of its single source of truth codebase, leaving Google Chrome and Android on specific ones. … The first engineers ardently defended a model of monorepo centralized on a monolithic architecture, a choice that was still traditional at that time.

How does Google's monorepo work?

The monorepo changes the way you interact with other teams such that everything is always integrated. … When we make any change to Angular, we need to sync this into Google’s monorepo. Doing so means that every Angular user immediately gets the change. Every commit is a release!

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

Senior Technology Editor & AI Specialist

Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.

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