The Source Control of Windows with Ed Thomson and Jill Campbell

The Source Control of Windows with Ed Thomson and Jill Campbell

Author: Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell December 6, 2018 Duration: 52:19
Windows represents the single largest Git source control library in the world at 300GB - but what does it take to work on it? Carl and Richard talk to Ed Thomson and Jill Campbell about how Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS) functions under the load of 33,000 people working on the Windows project with 11 million work items. There are many things in Azure DevOps that can cope with that scale, but some aspects don't make sense to add directly, like moving millions of work items. For that, the team has built extensions available in the Visual Studio marketplace - check them out, maybe they can help you!

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