GitLab Next

Overview

Looking for other engineers and engineering managers to join me as we read Software Engineering at Google which was recently released.

• Date: 20th May UTC, then every 2 weeks
• Time: 9:30 pm UTC every Wednesday UTC (7:30am Thu Sydney, 5:30pm Wed Eastern, 2:30pm Wed Pacific, 10:30pm Wed London)
• Facilitators: @bmarnane (and would love volunteers to help facilitate)

Participate

If you want to participate in this book club:

• Buy the book
  • You can buy it at Amazon, or subscribe to O'Reilly.
  • This can be expensed.
• React to this issue with 📘 once you have a copy.

Protocol

We'll meet bi-weekly and discuss a particular section of the book. At each book club meeting, we'll:

• Arrive having pre-read the section for that week.
• Discuss any interesting captions or concepts that caught your attention.
• Discuss any practices from the book that we can try at GitLab.

Schedule

Date (UTC)	Chapters	Recording
20th May	1. What Is Software Engineering? 2. How to Work Well on Teams 3. Knowledge Sharing 4. Engineering for Equity	-
3rd June	5. How to Lead a Team 6. Leading at Scale 7. Measuring Engineering Productivity 8. Style Guides and Rules	https://youtu.be/BxF9mDHvMZE
17th June	9. Code Review 10. Documentation 11. Testing Overview 12. Unit Testing	-
1st July	13. Test Doubles 14. Larger Testing 15. Deprecation 16. Version Control and Branch Management	https://youtu.be/_twlDfuWmm8
15th July	17. Code Search 18. Build Systems and Build Philosophy 19. Critique: Google’s Code Review Tool 20. Static Analysis	-
29th July	21. Dependency Management 22. Large-Scale Changes 23. Continuous Integration 24. Continuous Delivery 25. Compute as a Service	-