Thursday, October 9, 2014

Hg for Repos of ANY SIZE, Move Fast and Break Nothing

Two articles that struck my fancy this week:

  1. https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/
  2. http://zachholman.com/talk/move-fast-break-nothing/
Facebook's performance contributions, along with the two new extensions they've contributed (hgwatchman, remotefilelog) make even the most daunting of versioning scenarios completely supportable!! (Check out the article, I won't spoil it here... :)

The "Move Fast and Break Nothing" keynote lends a fresh perspective on classifying targeted changes and adjusting your dev strategy accordingly (along with a few pointers on how to succeed in the more challenging cases).

I feel like we're currently in the middle of a Software Development version of the Renaissance!! (Hg, Angular, Groovy, Bootstrap... AWS... Atlassian!!!)