A curated list of everything related to trunk based development.

A short summary taken from trunkbaseddevelopment.com describes it as this:

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *, resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques, avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.

For a more in-depth introduction to the idea, I highly recommend the linked site above by Paul Hammant.

Since I've been maintaining a list of sites, videos and blog posts on trunk based development, I figured it could be of more use if I made it public instead. It's simply a collection of links on this topic 😄 If you'd like to contribute, do send a pull request!

• Trunk-Based Development [website, 2017]
• Trunk-Based Development Economics [video, 2017]
• How Google Builds Web Frameworks [blog post, 2017]
• How Chromium Works [blog post, 2015]
• Feature Toggles [article, 2016]
• Branch By Abstraction [article, 2014]

• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository [article, 2016]
• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository [video, 2015]
• Go in a Monorepo [blog post, 2015]. Digital Ocean's use of monorepo for Go
• Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo [blog post, 2017]. Describes Digital Ocean's monorepo.
• Billions of lines of code in a single repository, SRSLY? [video, 2016]
• Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository - A case study at Google [article, 2018]

• The largest Git repo on the planet [blog post, 2017]
  Microsoft explaining how they moved the Windows code base to Git.
• Scaling Mercurial at Facebook [blog post, 2014]
• Scaling Mercurial at Facebook: Insights from the Other Side [video, 2017]
• Scaling Source Control at Facebook [video, 2014]
• Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale [paper pdf, 2011]
• Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale [slides pdf, 2011]
• Git Virtual File System [video, 2017]
• Scaling Git at Microsoft [video, 2017]
• Scaling Git at Twitter [video, 2015]
• Git at Google: Making Big Projects (and Everyone Else) Happy [video, 2015]

• Bazel [website, 2017] by Google
• Buck [website, 2017] by Facebook
• Pants [website, 2017] by Twitter
• Crazy Fun Build [docs, 2015]. Used by Selenium, being phased out for Buck.
• Build in the Cloud: Distributing Build Outputs (at Google) [blog post, 2011]
• Build in the Cloud: Distributing Build Steps (at Google) [blog post, 2011]
• Build in the Cloud: How the Build System works (at Google) [blog post, 2011]
• Tools for Continuous Integration at Google Scale [video, 2012]
• Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk [video, 2012]
• Building Software at Google Scale: Bazel [video, 2016]
• Bazel: Google’s extensible, multilingual, scalable build system [video, 2017]
• Building a Distributed Build System at Google Scale [video, 2016]
• Bazel for building Angular applications [video, 2018]
• Videos from BazelCon 2017 [video, 2017]
• Bazel - How to build at Google Scale? FOSDEM 2017 [video, 2017]
• Bazel - A Brief Overview [video, 2018]
• Skylark - The Bazel Extensibility Language [video, 2017]
• Your Build in a Datacenter - Remote Caching and Execution in Bazel [video, 2018]
• Pants and Monorepos [video, 2018]
• Build and Test Performance at Scale [video, 2017]

Pull requests are more than welcome. The common theme above are challenges that arise when scaling the number of developers while keeping a central infrastructure (be it VCS, build systems, CI servers and so on).

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