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REDUCING OUR MONOREPO SIZE TO IMPROVE DEVELOPER VELOCITY

dropbox.tech12 min read

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Dropbox reduced their 87GB monorepo to 20GB after discovering that Git's delta compression quirk was causing translation files to bloat pack files. By performing a tuned server-side repack, they slashed clone times from over an hour to under 15 minutes.