If you’re interested in becoming a software engineer or are junior, do not read this and cargo cult it because many of these things will not be good practices for 99.99% of the industry.
Google has custom tooling, custom kernels, custom hardware, etc and legions of support at every layer of the stack. Complexity is not eschewed but it is rather embraced if it means some slight improvement in utilization or better looking latency distribution.
Those goals are not sustainable in normal businesses, even tech ones.
Google places very little emphasis on things like code readability and testability because it’s easy for them to do rewrites or just run tests on 1 million cores to shake out race conditions and locks.
Read this for entertainment but don’t try to blindly apply it to your work environment. Most of it will make you a bad engineer for non-FAANG envs.
Google has custom tooling, custom kernels, custom hardware, etc and legions of support at every layer of the stack. Complexity is not eschewed but it is rather embraced if it means some slight improvement in utilization or better looking latency distribution.
Those goals are not sustainable in normal businesses, even tech ones.
Google places very little emphasis on things like code readability and testability because it’s easy for them to do rewrites or just run tests on 1 million cores to shake out race conditions and locks.
Read this for entertainment but don’t try to blindly apply it to your work environment. Most of it will make you a bad engineer for non-FAANG envs.