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CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points to it in monorepo and refactoring discussions as a great account of large-scale changes at Google.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CppCon
- Topic
- large-scale refactoring
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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See Hyrum Wright's talks on Large-Scale Changes at Google: [LINK] (CppCon2014), [VIDEO] (CppCon 2018), and paper by Googlers on ClangMR ( [LINK] ). It's great! And if you'd like to learn more about how monorepos work in practice there's a couple of papers: [LINK] and …
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