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   by fergus_google 6y ago

   For a brief overview of how software engineering is done at Google, see my paper "Software Engineering at Google" < https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715 >, and with regards to architecture, see in particular
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   by fergus_google 8y ago

   Untangle one dependency at a time.
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   by fergus_google 8y ago

   It's common for code at Google to be rewritten without reusing most of the existing tests -- instead, new tests are written for the new code. Yes, this risks not understanding edge cases. But not all of those edge cases are still impor
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   by fergus_google 10y ago

   That's actually an error in the paper -- JavaScript is now an officially approved programming language at Google.