Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis • GOTO 2022

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Titus Winters - Principal Software Engineer at Google and Co-Curator of "Software Engineering at Google" ‪@tituscsucredu‬
Matt Kulukundis - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google ‪@mattkulukundis6638‬

DESCRIPTION
What’s the difference between programming and software engineering?
Join Titus Winters, co-curator of “Software Engineering at Google”, and Matt Kulukundis while they approach the lessons learned by software engineering teams at Google in establishing the right practices for writing sustainable code in a safe environment. Discover what Google is still trying to improve on and what software decisions are difficult to undo.

The interview is based on Titus' co-curated book "Software Engineering at Google": https://amzn.to/3TfV0Gp

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:25 Build systems
06:30 Build systems dependencies
17:28 What is Google trying to improve in engineering?
24:50 Cheat sheet for building great teams
29:49 Where can Google improve on from a culture’s perspective?
32:07 How to grow as a software developer?
37:31 What chapter is missing entirely in the book?
42:16 What decisions are hard to undo?
48:48 3 Book recommendations
51:17 Outro

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck & Hyrum Wright • Software Engineering at Google • https://amzn.to/3TfV0Gp
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3uZzVo0
Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://williamgibsonbooks.com
Kim Scott • Just Work • https://amzn.to/3tdfKnz
Douglas R. Hofstadter • Gödel, Escher, Bach • https://amzn.to/3DXv0Lt
Douglas R. Hofstadter • I Am a Strange Loop • https://amzn.to/3T6Odyh
Alasdair MacIntyre • After Virtue • https://amzn.to/3Ewhyia
N. K. Jemisin • The Fifth Season • https://amzn.to/3zH93NU
Becky Chambers • Wayfarers Series • https://amzn.to/3ftH6Cn
Ken Liu • The Dandelion Dynasty • https://amzn.to/3SZRXBW
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications • https://amzn.to/3mk2Roj
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh • https://amzn.to/3tTCwAC

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