Software Engineering on A Blog for the Uninitialized

Social Acceptance of Large Scale Changes

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:46:37 -0700

I started reading through a book posted online called Software Engineering at Google, written in March of 2020 (truly a fateful time in all of our lives).

It’s an O’Reilly book, too, which you can purchase here if you’re interested (affiliate link).

In particular, I’ve started with chapter 22, which discusses “Large Scale Changes” or LSC’s for short. The intention behind it is to discuss how Google’s monorepo works when it comes to making changes that span across multiple projects.

Should dependencies always be kept up to date?

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:21:43 -0700

Something came up at work today related to the topic I discussed yesterday.

Should dependencies always be kept up to date?

I work in the Developer Experience (DevX) realm right now, and the current perspective on handling the potential security concerns that Mythos is highlighting is that we should immediately update all code (third party) dependencies to their respective, latest versions.

While that perspective is valid for my company right now (there’s so much more to the story there), this isn’t always a valid perspective to take.