Found It!: Software Engineering at Google

In my last post, I was shared what my concerns were regarding software development and what my role as a Tech Lead should look at AISG.

Today, I had an awesome find!

One thing led to another #

I was looking at my youtube subscriptions, and I saw video posted on the “Dev Interrupted” channel. If you aren’t subscribed to it, I highly recommend it. I recall I found the channel when Luca Rossi, the owner of the amazing “Refactoring” newsletter, mentioned it in one of the issues of his newsletter (Thanks Luca!).

The video, titled Evaluating and Understanding Constraints in Software Engineering was actually a clip from a podcast interview in June 2021. The title of the video didn’t click with me at first. When I opened it and listened. They were talking about constraints that are needed during software engineering (something I personally believe in).

I searched the names of the interviewees and found out they were the authors of the book “Software Engineering at Google”. I can’t tell you how many times I’d seen this book on different websites and how much I wanted to read it. Unfortunately, I would always de-prioritize it on my reading list. I went to the book on my O’Reilly account, opened the TOC and then, my jaw dropped. The TOC was almost all of the things I wrote down in my previous post and more.

To my amazement, the book is also shared for free on their website.

How am I going to go from here? #

This new finding is very precious. In my coming posts, I’ll be using elements of the book and also, other books that I have access to or purchased.

My main goal would be to define the processes and practices from the point of view of a Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Lead @AISG.