Software Engineering at Google
Google has released a digital version of the book "Software Engineering at Google" for free. The book focuses on engineering practices that ensure a sustainable and healthy codebase rather than programming itself. It is curated by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright and is available under a Creative Commons license.
- ▪The book was published in March 2020.
- ▪It emphasizes engineering practices for maintaining a healthy codebase.
- ▪A digital version is available for free on abseil.io.
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Software Engineering at Google In March, 2020, we published a book titled “Software Engineering at Google” curated by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright. The Software Engineering at Google book (“SWE Book”) is not about programming, per se, but about the engineering practices utilized at Google to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. (These practices are paramount for common infrastructural code such as Abseil.) We are happy to announce that we are providing a digital version of this book in HTML free of charge. Of course, we encourage you to get yourself a hard copy from O’Reilly if you wish.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Abseil.