Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk
Google TechTalks1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2013–2014
talk · intermediate · 2013–2014 on HN
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.
Referenced as a rare public description of how Google builds software, from which tools like Bazel descend.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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] ▶ this video
Google has publically described their build system here link (low fidelity) and here ▶ this video (high fidelity)
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. ▶ this video and a talk link and another talk Really cool stuff.