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Software Engineering at Google

Book by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck & Hyrum Wright, curators

A free book about keeping a codebase healthy over time: engineering culture, processes, tools, and the tradeoffs that come with scale.

What to look for

01
Distinguish programming a solution from sustaining it through years of change.
02
Choose chapters around a concrete maintenance or collaboration problem.

Keep in mind

Published in 2020 and rooted in Google’s environment. The free edition has its own noncommercial, no-derivatives license.

Put it to work

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Choose one practice your team currently follows by habit and discuss which long-term cost it is meant to reduce.

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