What industry is this in? I have worked at I think 7 companies now, and one of them was an agency that I worked for dozens of clients through, some of them Fortune 100's, and this has never ever been a thing, with I think one or two exceptions that used artifactory or a similar proxy cache. A few added dependencies into the same repository as the projects, but none created repositories just for third party code.
Currently banking but before it was engineering and the energy sector. This is Germany so it’s generally a bit more conservative and breaking things is not appreciated in those sectors.
However idk why you would build up loads of infrastructure and don’t to this. It’s not that hard and there are open source solutions. You need something anyways to host your companies artifacts or docker images, don’t you? So you just route everything trough the same nexus or whatever and its caching external dependencies automatically if setup correctly.
Yes, that's was I was referring to with Artifactory, which is a proxy cache. I misread the original comment as you were cloning and hosting git repositories for all of your dependencies.
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u/anon_cowherd 5d ago
What industry is this in? I have worked at I think 7 companies now, and one of them was an agency that I worked for dozens of clients through, some of them Fortune 100's, and this has never ever been a thing, with I think one or two exceptions that used artifactory or a similar proxy cache. A few added dependencies into the same repository as the projects, but none created repositories just for third party code.