Lexical Scanning in Go
Rob Pike·2011·Google Tech Talks·56 minRob 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.
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism
Rob Pike·2012·Heroku WazaRob Pike untangles two words the industry has spent decades confusing — using Go and a stack of gophers.
Go Concurrency Patterns
Rob Pike·2012·Google I/ORob Pike on goroutines and channels as primitives, and how a handful of small composable patterns add up to a coherent model for concurrent programs.
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.
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch·2007·Google Tech TalksThe Java Collections architect distills decades of API design into a tight set of heuristics. Still the canonical reference on the subject.
Stop Writing Dead Programs
Jack Rusher·2022·Strange LoopJack Rusher argues that most of our languages are still, accidentally, designed around the punchcard — and shows what a living programming environment could look like instead.