”There are many reasons for Google’s success, including enlightened leadership, great people, a high hiring bar, and the financial strength that comes from successfully taking advantage of an early lead in a very rapidly growing market. But one of these reasons is that Google has developed excellent software engineering practices, which have helped it to succeed. These practices have evolved over time based on the accumulated and distilled wisdom of many of the most talented software engineers on the planet. We would like to share knowledge of our practices with the world, and to share some of the lessons that we have learned from our mistakes along the way. The aim of this paper is to catalogue and briefly describe Google’s key software engineering practices. Other organizations and individuals can then compare and contrast these with their own software engineering practices, and consider whether to apply some of these practices themselves.”
arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf
1702.01715.pdf