Ask HN: Who uses custom versions of common tools in their build pipeline?
I'm going to participate in a debate on monolithic vs many smaller repositories.
One of my points is that many companies does not have a scale where investing heavily in custom tooling has a feasible ROI.
I know that Facebook builds and ships the very newest Mercurial with extensions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVD-DrUpwQ&t=169s
Uber uses ( or has used ) a custom build of Docker to do some scrubbing of build-time secrets.
What other companies do you know of that uses custom built versions of common tools like Git? And for what purpose?
I look forward to seeing some cool examples of custom tooling.
No comments yet.