Google's lessons from five years of mass code migrations
CppCon · Talk · 1 h 0 min · 2018 · YouTube title: CppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”
Why it's here
HN points to it in monorepo and refactoring discussions as a great account of large-scale changes at Google.
What it covers
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.