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Small Pull Requests: Why They Move Development Teams Faster
What happened
In many backend teams, pull requests slowly grow into something nobody wants to review. A developer starts working on a feature. At first, it’s just a small change — maybe a new endpoint or a service update. Soon another improvement gets added. A small refactor follows. Finally, a fix for something unrelated appears. Two days later, the pull request contains 900 lines of changes across 14 files. At that moment, something predictable happens. The review slows down. Not because the reviewers are l
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