Ever wondered how much code it takes to run Google’s services? Rachel Potvin, an engineering manager at the company revealed at a recent @Scale conference that it’s in the neighborhood of 2 billion lines.
That’s roughly 40 times the size of Microsoft’s Windows XP OS and 100 times that of Facebook’s primary app. And it’s all stored in a single repository. Potvin guesses that it’s the largest code base on the planet.
Source: The Next Web
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