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CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”

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Software practice, open source & careersC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Hyrum Wright shares lessons from five years of mass code migrations in Google's huge C++ codebase. He covers why to migrate, how hard it really is, and how Google updates core libraries and their users continually.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it in monorepo and refactoring discussions as a great account of large-scale changes at Google.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's great!”

    Large-scale changes at Google, with talks and papers.

    svat, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Monorepos: Please don’t”

  2. “The discussions from Hyrum Wright from Google about large-scale refactoring are great in this respect.”

    Great discussion of large-scale refactoring at Google.

    ted_dunning, 2024-11 · Recommendation · in “Monorepo – Our Experience”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: google, monorepo, migrations, c++, cppcon

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