# Lessons from Software Engineering at Google for Maintaining Healthy Codebases

DevFeed: [Lessons from Software Engineering at Google for Maintaining Healthy Codebases](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-i-learned-from-the-book-software-engineering-at-google-38697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/what-i-learned-at-swe-at-google-book>)

Author: Dr Milan Milanović

Published: 2026-02-26T16:01:23Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tech World With Milan Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tech-world-with-milan-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Dependency management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dependency-management.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [Refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/refactoring.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mocking.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/upgrade.md>)

Tags: [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [dependency-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency-management.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mocking.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

A review of Software Engineering at Google argues that the book's lessons apply to teams of different sizes. It highlights practices for evolving, sharing, testing, releasing, and eventually deleting code, along with code review, dependency management, productivity measurement, and engineering culture.

## Source excerpt

And what you can apply from today.