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I have a very positive pov on packwerk right now, that’s my prior, but i want to hear other perspectives
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My perspective is pretty basic… it’s a tool
I say this a lot in conversations about many technologies
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I think perhaps where we keep talking past each other is that it sounds like you’re talking about ideal end states, and I’m talking about a process for improving a system in flight–a system that has problems and bright spots and forgotten spots, etc. it’s a system that is still changing and has many constraints… but we have a session on the books and i’m excited to talk about this
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my question about package size is deliberately basic to get a feel for how how teams are thinking about package sizes in general
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in organic chemistry this the difference between thermodynamics and kinetics. you’re talking about thermodynamics, i’m talking about kinetics)
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<@U72DOM2VVHS> might also be good to clarify… what do we mean when we say “size”? are we talking about public api size? data over the wire? LOC? eng head count?
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yes 
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I have in my mind a set of target conditions…. they’re not exactly what you’re describing but there are a lot of similarities
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mostly engineering team size and loc but im not over indexing on any specific answers. most of what i see in this group seems to land on (what i would consider to be) very small packages. my limied anecdotal experience in some corners of shopify was for packages that at-a-glance felt larger than what i’m seeing folks discuss here. i don’t think either is wrong or right, i just like to get a sense of what the community is doing
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but i also think i believe that code a piece of software is simultaneously an emergent system and something engineered by people. it’s a process of discovery. you’re figuring out what the product is and the shape of the code at the same time
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