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Lessons Learned from Programming at Google w/ Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters (Part 1)

Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled.

In the first episode of a two-part series, Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters join the Dev Interrupted podcast to discuss lessons learned from programming at Google and to talk about their new book.

Both guests bring a deep understanding of software engineering to the show: Hyrum is semi-famous as the "Hyrum" of Hyrum's Law; while Titus is responsible for managing 250 million lines of code and over 12,000 developers.

Their book, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, is available for free online.

Listen to the full episode

Episode Highlights include:

  • What is Hyrum's Law and how did it come to exist?
  • The role of time in relation to software engineering
  • The "real" goal of software engineering
  • How Google thinks about scale
  • Why every line of code is a lability

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NOBILITYPNW

These guys really know their stuff. Super interesting.

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LinearB

Hyrum and Titus were great, can't wait to have them back for Part II!