How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch·2007·Google Tech Talks·1 hrThe Java Collections architect distills decades of API design into a tight set of heuristics. Still the canonical reference on the subject.
Lexical Scanning in Go
Rob Pike·2011·Google Tech TalksRob Pike walks through the lexer he built for Go's text/template package — a small masterclass in using state functions and channels to write a parser that reads like prose.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford·2009·Google Tech TalksCrockford's walkthrough of the language — its good parts, its bad parts, and the historical accidents that produced both.
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
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Linus Torvalds·2007·Google Tech TalksLinus visits Google in 2007 to explain — bluntly — why distributed version control is the right model, why CVS and Subversion are not, and how git's data model falls out of that.
Unexpected Benefits of Going Local-First
Tuomas Artman·2024·Local-First ConfLinear adopted local-first to make the app feel instant — and ended up with a team that ships faster than the architectures it replaced. Artman on what fell out of the decision.
Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem
Tyler Treat·2018·QConTreat reframes consistency, latency, and partial failure as user-facing concerns — and shows what good distributed-system UX looks like.
Atomic Design
Brad Frost·2013·Beyond TellerrandBrad Frost lays out the methodology that named atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages — the vocabulary most modern design systems still borrow from.