Software Engineer and Author
Titus Winters is a senior staff software engineer at Google, where he leads the C++ library team and oversees 250 million lines of code. He co-authored Software Engineering at Google, drawing on his experience with some of the largest code refactorings in history.
by Titus Winters
Winters distils Google's lessons on sustaining codebases over decades, separating programming from engineering by the dimension of time. Testing, code review, and deprecation at scale.
The books Titus Winters references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Robert C. Martin
Martin argues that code is read far more often than written. Clean code, with clear names, small functions, and minimal dependencies, is a professional responsibility, not a luxury.
by Martin Fowler
Fowler argues that improving code structure without changing behaviour is essential to software longevity. Small, disciplined refactoring steps reduce complexity and prevent technical debt from compounding.
by Frederick Brooks
Brooks argues that adding more programmers to a late project makes it later - a principle now known as Brooks' Law. The deeper insight: software complexity grows faster than headcount, making communication the real bottleneck.
Who Titus draws from, and who draws from Titus — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.