Hi,

I recently attended a short, but very interesting, talk by Jonas Tengstrad in which he introduced Polylith at the "Kompetensbio" event in Malmö. I spoke to Jonas afterwards and he patiently tried to explain the benefits of polylith to me but I still don't quite get it I think. Below are some of my take-aways and follow-up questions that perhaps can help me shed some light on my confusion. Note that my questions are a sincere attempt for me to understand polylith, and not a criticism (since I'm just learning about polylith, the only thing I could possible criticize would be a strawman).

Key take-aways:

It's a way to structure your code for increased re-usability, understandability and easier maintainance (the leiningen plugin helps out with this)
It allows for de-composition of components which can later be composed into potentially new applications (systems?) using already existing building blocks with minimal plumbing code.
The individual components doesn't have to be released and used as binaries in different systems, the changes are reflected immediately (which forces you to use a monorepo). This is very interesting.

Questions/comments:

Note I've only looked briefly at the docs and I've not yet watch any talks online so feel free to just point me to some references where I can read up more if my questions makes no sense at all 🙂.

Thanks for your patience 🙂
/Johan