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The Google Way
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The Google Way

by Bernard Girard
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 53m
English
No Starch Press
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Small Teams Are Efficient

Because small teams are ill equipped to win political battles for additional resources, their members tend to eschew hallway politics and seek technical solutions instead. In order to advance their project, team members stick to norms, use available modules, and generally work in more efficient ways.

Even in a company as rich as Google, the resources available to small teams are inevitably limited; they have to make do with what is quickly and easily procurable. After all, why reinvent the wheel when resources are scarce? Why not just use the wheel and put your efforts elsewhere? And Google is not hesitant to use existing tools—such as open source databases or the Linux operating system—when those tools meet its needs. ...

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