
Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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Design Is a Big Thing, but It's Not a Book
Design is such a huge topic that it probably deserves to be its own book. I've been spending more sort of classroom style time with George Fairbanks, who has books on design. There are aspects of this that I think are very teachable and there are concepts not about how to make an individual design decision. Don't ship things without version numbers. Over the expected lifespan of your code, you need to be capable of changing everything important that comes along. And when we make decisions that can't be undone, oh, dear Lord, that is the stressor.
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