[phumbe]

Sounds similar to some work I’ve been doing, so thanks for unknowingly validating my design!

At my employer, I’m spearheading a wholesale reimplementation of outdated process automation software, turning everything into Django web apps.

I’ve been working with a monorepo and monolithic deployments to maintain development velocity but recently started transitioning the CI/CD pipeline to deploy each application/service in the monorepo independently. The pipeline packages common assets (including, e.g., manage.py, common HTML templates, and the dependency spec...all housed in the same monorepo) into each app directory before the deploy stage.

Meanwhile, local developers clone the entire monorepo, and when they launch localhost, all of the services come online simultaneously. (That’s the goal, at least!)

I was already excited to see my work come to fruition, and now I’ll be keeping an eye on Khan Academy, too!

[dangoor]

That does sound pretty similar (though our services all have the luxury of serving nothing other than GraphQL!).

Our current plan for local development is to continue cloning the monorepo and firing up all of the services. Go services don't take a whole lot of resources, so we think this plan will work fine for quite a while.