Build, Deploy, and Merge Queues at Scale with Jon Block

Episode notes

“Engineers don’t always like merge queue because they have to wait longer for their PRs to merge. But the trade-off is that the quality of those merges will be higher, and the company will have less downtime and outages,” says Jon Block, founder of LowRouchAdvisor. Using a merge queue is like wearing a seatbelt, he adds, the only responsible thing to do for large engineering organizations that ship products that matter. Jon also shares best practices and lessons learned about scaling build and deploy from his 26 years of experience. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Developer Experience and Scaling Repositories 01:37 Managing Repositories in Large Organizations 05:24 Monorepo vs.

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