All posts written by Fabricio Mougou
Uncharted Waters: a guide to exploring unfamiliar codebases
Some companies' codebases are massive. FreeAgent’s, with its monolith Rails application, certainly is no exception. The first time you clone one of these codebases onto your machine and see the sheer number of folders, files and complexity, your eyes might just widen and your jaw may just drop - letting out a yelp. As you click through the first few random files, noticing that you don’t understand a thing and… Continue reading