Middlemarch and the Monorepo

A Study of Provincial Life and Shared Code Ownership

George Eliot · 15 June 2026

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other, and occasionally to fix the build?”

A deeply humane examination of monorepos, shared ownership, dependency boundaries, and the slow realisation that technical decisions are rarely separable from social ones.

Contents

1. Chapter 1: A Repository of Provincial Life
2. Chapter 2: Casaubon’s Unfinished Build System
3. Chapter 3: Dorothea Proposes Shared Ownership
4. Chapter 4: The Reform Bill of Continuous Integration

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.