I, like many others here, echo this sentiment. While I disliked working in ads, the experience of working with that repo+tooling is unmatched by anything else in my career.
So many have their code split between a two dozen clouds, BA tools (… does Google put that in the monorepo too? Or is that, which is a lot of the code at most businesses, not “really” code at Google?), vendor platforms, low-code tools you all hate and are trying to deprecate but god damned if you aren’t still spending dev hours on new features in it, et c…
I bet achieving anywhere near the full benefits would first require retooling one’s entire business, including processes, and bringing a whole shitload of farmed-out SaaS stuff in-house at enormous expense, most places.
I wrote a bit about this here: https://blog.williammanley.net/2020/05/25/unlock-software-fr...
I understand that nix have made some progress in this direction, but I don’t know any more than that.
To quote broccoli man, "i've forgotten how to count that low" [1].