[perching_aix]

This is a really cool insight, thank you!

> Half of the tips above were probably written by interested people from the engineering org at large and we provided the platform and helped them get it published.

Are you aware how those engineers established their recommendations? Did they maybe perform case studies? Or was it more just a distillation of lived experience type of deal?

[eep_social]

I wasn’t in C++ style land but my recollection is that distilled experience would be backed up by extensive mailing list discussions. in case of contention the discussion might extend into case studies or other quantitative techniques atop google3. It’s difficult for me personally to describe the impact (outsized)of a super-resourced monorepo for this kind of thing. also as gp mentioned, it was sometimes possible to automate changes to comply with updated guidelines.