Software Engineering at Google (O'Reilly)
Wednesday, 25 March 2020

How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the world’s leading practitioners construct and maintain software. Subtitled "Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time" this book covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

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Author: Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum K. Wright
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: March 2020
Pages: 602
ISBN: 978-1492082798
Print: 1492082791
Kindle: B0859PF5HB
Audience: Developers
Level: Introductory
Category: General interest

Concepts covered:

 

  • How time affects the sustainability of software and how to make your code resilient over time
  • How scale affects the viability of software practices within an engineering organization
  • What trade-offs a typical engineer needs to make when evaluating design and development decisions

 

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