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Google is the only company I'm aware of where the engineers constantly publish popular books about their engineering practices.

Apple, Amazon / AWS, MSFT, etc. have all done impressive things in their space at various points, but seem to lack the mixture of personalities / culture / reputation where "Engineering at Apple" isn't quite the hit that SRE at Google [1] or this book may be.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Producti...

Edit: If you're at Apple and happen to work in hardware, I would pay good money to read about the process and war stories.



Maybe a bit lighter than what you meant but entertaining: Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Ken-Kocienda-ebook/dp/B079DVT6VP).

One anecdote I enjoyed was how Steve Jobs said the guiding principle for Safari was that it had to load pages faster than any other existing browser so the engs made a benchmark with top 100/1k sites part of the CI to enforce the principle: diffs that slowed-down the browser could not be merged.


Other companies usually publish books on management




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