Sinking Atlantis - How Breaking Up Infrastructure Monorepos Saved Us from Pull Request Purgatory

Explore how breaking up infrastructure monorepos can save organizations from pull request purgatory in this 35-minute conference talk. Learn about the journey of Recursion's Engineering Infrastructure team as they transitioned from broadly scoped infrastructure-as-code (IaC) monorepos to dedicated 'bounded context repos'. Discover the challenges faced with GitOps practices and how refactoring the IaC codebase led to improved release velocity and self-service resource provisioning. Compare two different GitOps repo patterns for IaC, examining their pros and cons, and understand the pivotal decision-making process behind the transition. Gain insights into reimagining infrastructure provisioning patterns and empowering software engineering teams while maintaining easier infrastructure management.