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STRIPE'S MONOREPO DEVELOPER ENVIRONMENT

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The developer environment at Stripe has tools and infrastructure built to support a large Ruby monorepo. Code is run on cloud-based devboxes instead of local machines. The company's team team invested heavily in automated code synchronization and a unified command-line tool called "pay" to manage devbox interactions. This post discusses the importance of organizational scale and codebase characteristics in shaping the design and success of the developer tooling.