It's awkwardly phrased, yes, but what the author is saying is that Google-tier scale companies will have an awful time migrating from poly to mono-repo, and a not fun time being mono-repo for the first few years.
For company's not at this tier, it isn't that hard to migrate to a monorepo and the benefits will be more immediate because the tools (eg. git) won't be screaming under the load.
(My personal 2c is that you can be well below Google-scale and still hit the limits of the common tooling when using monorepos. Canva, Stripe, and Twitter are examples)
For company's not at this tier, it isn't that hard to migrate to a monorepo and the benefits will be more immediate because the tools (eg. git) won't be screaming under the load.
(My personal 2c is that you can be well below Google-scale and still hit the limits of the common tooling when using monorepos. Canva, Stripe, and Twitter are examples)