Software Engineering at Google
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The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. With this book, you'll get a candid and insightful look at how software is constructed and maintained by some of the world's leading practitioners. Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum K. Wright, software engineers and a technical writer at Google, reframe how software engineering is practiced and taught: from an emphasis on programming to an emphasis on software engineering, which roughly translates to programming over time. You'll learn: Fundamental differences between software engineering and programming How an organization effectively manages a living codebase and efficiently responds to inevitable change Why culture (and recognizing it) is important, and how processes, practices, and tools come into play.
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It was an interesting read about how software engineering works at Google. There are some things that are particular to Google itself (problems and scale) but most of the topics mentioned I already saw as a process or best practice working in the industry.
It's an interesting resource for newcomers and people who didn't have the chance to work in companies that are solving difficult technical and scalability problems.
I liked that it's a fast-paced book. Divided into topics and easy to digest. Some of the topics, like LSC, are very Google's (scalability) problem, and maybe it's not that useful for most of the companies in the world. But the overview on culture, tools, and processes were all interesting to me.
