Software Engineering - The Soft Parts
Addy Osmani
Mar 2023 · Addy Osmani
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In "Software Engineering - The Soft Parts" Addy Osmani shares lessons from his first 10 years at Google on the "soft skills" that can help engineers become effective and scale their effectiveness. This guidance should help junior, mid-career and even senior developers move forward, deal with changing technology, and navigate building non-trivial systems.
Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience. Each project, even small ones, is a chance to add new techniques and tools to your toolbox. Where this delivers even more value is when you can solve problems by pairing techniques learned on one project with tools learned working on another. This short book tries to capture what the "soft skills" are and how they can all add up.
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November 19, 2023
Something I liked about this book was that it didn't feel like it was a long read (it was super focused) but still managed to deliver on a lot of valuable nuggets from a Google engineering leader's career. The recent audiobook version was also a nice listen.
Adil Hussain
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March 22, 2023
Good, sensible advice presented succinctly with plenty of outbound links if you want to follow up a given topic with further reading.
Ganesh Sharma
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August 23, 2023
A wonderful read for juniors and seniors alike. we can add it as a recommended read in the induction phase for every engineer, be it senior or junior.
About the author
Addy Osmani is an Irish Software Engineer and leader currently working on the Google Chrome web browser. He has worked at Google for over ten years, focused on making the web fast and better for web developers. He previously worked at AOL and on Fortune 500 sites.
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