Course with Maisie
Maisie — Understand a Large Codebase in Two Weeks
How to understand a large codebase without reading all of it, taught 1:1 in timed five-minute explorations rather than a walkthrough. Two weeks across a half-million-line monorepo, ending when a new engineer traces a feature from request to database and merges a change by day ten.
What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use
- A merged pull request by day ten
- They explain a feature from request to database unaided
Your tutor
An engineer who has onboarded into four unfamiliar monorepos and now runs code orientation for new starters.
Curious · Quick · Blunt about wasted effort
Questions about this course
How can a new engineer get productive in our monorepo within two weeks?
How to understand a large codebase without reading all of it, taught 1:1 in timed five-minute explorations rather than a walkthrough. Two weeks across a half-million-line monorepo, ending when a new engineer traces a feature from request to database and merges a change by day ten.