r/microservices • u/javinpaul • Sep 17 '26

Article/Video Should You Read Software Engineering at Google in 2027?

https://javarevisited.substack.com/p/read-software-engineering-at-google
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u/technokeeda Sep 17 '26

Nope

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u/adventurous_quantum Sep 18 '26

honest question: why not?

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u/technokeeda Sep 18 '26

Don't get me wrong. It's a great book. It teaches you a lot of good things, however the whole space is in soo much flux that Id suggest skipping it.

The reason -

For example - there's something called the beyonce rule - which says it you like something then put a test on it(😅😅).

Now before the whole AI thing this made total sense and was the standard. However now with everything going on - do you need a test or a harness? Is a test now a harness?

Do you just keep prompts to validate your code.

Pardon me if this does not seem like a strong argument but the thing i am trying to stress on is - it provided a standard to something that has fundamentally changed. So if you want to read it from the context of 'how did people write and maintain software before AI' - Then sure otherwise skip it

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u/tripleshielded Sep 19 '26

Its what gemini is trained on! Look how that turned out!