What to do when projects get big and messy (Go Time #229)

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Another entry in the maintenance series! Throughout the series we’ve discussed building versus buying, building actually maintainable software, maintaining ourselves, open source maintenance, legacy code, and most recently Go project structure. In this 7th installment of the series, we continue narrowing our focus by talking about what to do when projects get big and messy.

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• sam boyer – Twitter, GitHub
• Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub
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