“We were so happy to announce that we had 1,000 merged PRs in 3 months. We were over the top. Today, we do this in 10 days, and this number keeps going up. What is the result of this? It’s a bunch of PRs to review. This is becoming the new bottleneck.”
Quote · infoq.com
From “Rewriting All of Spotify’s Codebase All the Time”, found 2026-10-14.
Their fixes so far: review time expectations, closing stale PRs, a PR inbox, letting the migration owner approve, and more auto-merge. Which PRs are safe to auto-merge is, in their words, not fully answered.