Alex Gaynor • 12/29/2015

Shrinking your code review

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This article discusses the challenges of large code reviews, explaining how they reduce effectiveness by diluting focus, encouraging bikeshedding, and causing review fatigue. It argues for smaller reviews and provides concrete tactics for splitting large changes, such as isolating dependency upgrades, to improve code quality and review efficiency.

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