Development at the Speed and Scale of Google

Excerpt from a presentation from Ashish Kumar, Engineering Tools Manager at Google, in the last QCon conference.

General facts

• Google has 5000 developers, working on 2000 projects.
• Main languages: C++, Java.
• Code review before submiting code.
• 100+ Million of test run every day.

Engineering Tools Team

• 100+ engineers
• Focus on accelerating time from idea to production.
• Builds toos related to Source Control, Developers Tools, IDEs, Test Infrastructure, Build .Tools, Project Management Tools.

What's Unique on Google?

• Invest much on infrastructure for developers.
• Strong focus on metrics for improvement.

Google's way

• Run test on all OS / browser combination.
• Run every affected test at every code change.
• Move al "computing-intesive work" to the cloud.

References

1. Full presentation http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Development-at-Google
2. QCon 2010 site http://qconsf.com/sf2010/