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Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Google TechTalks
1 HN recommenders · discussed 2013–2014
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Google engineers describe Google's internal build system, a unified, language-agnostic system used across the company. It was presented as a 2012 NYC tech talk.

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Referenced as a rare public description of how Google builds software, from which tools like Bazel descend.

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WestCoastJustin · 2013-07 · rec

The Wired article talks about internal tools used to compile code. In line with that, there is an interesting video "Building Software at Google Scale" [1], which seems to give an overview of the systems used. [1] [VIDEO]

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pnathan · 2013-01 · reference

Honestly, I've heard the majority of it before, and I have never been a Google employee. I have, however, listened to some of their talks on the internal workflows and processes that they've presented and posted on youtube. I think the only things I didn't hear before were some of the specific toolnames. edit: [LINK] here's their engineering tools blog. [VIDEO] and a talk [LINK] and another talk Really cool stuff.

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chas · 2014-06 · reference

Google has publically described their build system here [LINK] (low fidelity) and here [VIDEO] (high fidelity)

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