Engineering resources from Google

Engineering resources from Google

This is a collection of extremely useful internal resources, which are made publicly available. I thought I’d share these, since they are a bit hard to find externally. And, they really are fantastic - years and years of tweaks and discussions and refinement have gone into these, from some of the great minds of computer science.

So, enjoy, as I have:

The “SWE book”

https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

The “SWE book” - Google Engineering Practices Documentation. A classic.

The “SRE book”

https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

Another classic, more on the operation side of things.

How to code review

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/

The page is called “Google Engineering Practices Documentation” because the internal version is more broad, but the external version has the bits about how reviewers and reviewees of code changes should interact. These are fantastic guidelines for a healthy engineering culture.

The Go style guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/

How to write “good” Go code at Google. Some of it is convention, but a lot of it is sensical and very well thought out rules of the road when writing Go code.

(I’m biased, having contributed some of these sections!)

Other language style guides

https://google.github.io/styleguide/

Well, I mostly care about Go, hence the callout, but here are the other language styleguide.

I’ll also call out the C++ as being fantastic. I’ve not used the others as much but I expect them all to be of a very high quality.

Post-note

I will continue editing this article as I find more. Stay tuned!

(I wonder if this will turn into a “How to re-create Google’s engineering department in your company”… 🤔)