Today, we are releasing the full interview of one of our favorite episodes: Dan’s 2021 conversation with engineers-turned-authors, Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters.
As two of the most senior staff engineers at Google, both guests brought 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.
In their brilliant book Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, Hyrum & Titus explore the engineering practices that make one of the largest codebases in the world sustainable and healthy.
Episode Highlights Include:
- (1:37) Google's strategic goal with its codebase
- (5:09) How the 'Flamingo book' came to be
- (8:01) The role of time in relation to software
- (10:35) Hyrum's Law
- (15:23) What is the real goal of software engineering?
- (17:47) Problems of scale at Google
- (23:24) Consumption of sublinear resources
- (28:18) When shifting left is a bad thing
- (30:25) Science of trade-offs
- (37:00) Constraints are your friend, not your enemy
- (42:46) Hire good people first, good programmers second
