The brightest light is found in the darkest places

With rapid growth comes the rapid onset of issues that teams and toolings are usually not prepared to handle.

By day, I’m the leader of an engineering team which has grown from 5 to around 50 engineers in the span of just under 3 years. With a small team of 5, branching models, code review standards, and branch protections are important, but there are plenty of small high performing teams without them. With a 50 person team, they are essential to ensure quality and stability throughout the codebase. From my experience these practices continuously evolve and improve as the team grows. Implementing these evolving practices over the 120+ repos (which number grows by the day) we have feels like a giant wrestling match between us and GitHub. Codebase Plumber is designed to turn this wrestling match into an elegant dance. If you are feeling the same pain we are - check us out at http://codebaseplumber.com/!