Writing documentation is an important part of coding. Here are some practices we “do not” follow at Google while writing code comments. — I didn’t come up with this topic by myself. I have always believed this to be a fairly subjective topic. It still is — but, a few days back I came across the following article: Comments: How Google Developers write their comments The more I write the code, the more I feel it. “It is better to be simple than complicated.” It is more advantageous to…paigeshin1991.medium.com

I am a senior software engineer at Google Singapore and very often I am asked about which programming language to learn — Sometimes this question manifests as “Should I learn Java, Python or JavaScript?” To be completely honest, I decided to write this article after reading a take on the same question by Eric Von Reinhard in the article “The Best Programming Language To Learn in 2022? — Google Lead Developer Explains”…

Code reviews (often called peer review or pull requests) are a pretty fundamental part of the software development process. Do we all know what it’s meant for? — Disclaimer: In this article I may pull up examples of my experience in Microsoft, Google or other places I worked. I must say, this article is entirely a reflection of my personal opinion and doesn’t reflect any official stance on the same. …