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As other answers have noted, Google uses a custom version control system called Piper. Though what I have found more interesting is how it’s hard to tell where the version control system ends, and where some of the other parts of the development toolchain begin.This article has a lot more details and I recommend reading all of it, though if you have to skim through it, this snippet is most relevant ( and also watch the Scale conference talk linked in another article ).Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single RepositoryMost developers access Piper through a system called Clients in the Cloud, or CitC, which consists of a cloud-based storage backend and a Linux-only FUSE file system. Developers see their workspaces as directories in the file system, including their changes overlaid on top of the full Piper repository. CitC supports code browsing and normal Unix tools with no need to clone or sync state locally. Developers can browse and edit files anywhere across the Piper repository, and only modified files are stored in their workspace. This structure means CitC workspaces typically consume only a small amount of storage (an average workspace has fewer than 10 files) while presenting a seamless view of the entire Piper codebase to the developer.All writes to files are stored as snapshots in CitC, making it possible to recover previous stages of work as needed. Snapshots may be explicitly named, restored, or tagged for review.CitC workspaces are available on any machine that can connect to the cloud-based storage system, making it easy to switch machines and pick up work without interruption. It also makes it possible for developers to view each other's work in CitC workspaces. Storing all in-progress work in the cloud is an important element of the Google workflow process. Working state is thus available to other tools, including the cloud-based build system, the automated test infrastructure, and the code browsing, editing, and review tools.Several workflows take advantage of the availability of uncommitted code in CitC to make software developers working with the large codebase more productive. For instance, when sending a change out for code review, developers can enable an auto-commit option, which is particularly useful when code authors and reviewers are in different time zones. When the review is marked as complete, the tests will run; if they pass, the code will be committed to the repository without further human intervention. The Google code-browsing tool CodeSearch supports simple edits using CitC workspaces. While browsing the repository, developers can click on a button to enter edit mode and make a simple change (such as fixing a typo or improving a comment). Then, without leaving the code browser, they can send their changes out to the appropriate reviewers with auto-commit enabled.Piper can also be used without CitC. Developers can instead store Piper workspaces on their local machines. Piper also has limited interoperability with Git. Over 80% of Piper users today use CitC, with adoption continuing to grow due to the many benefits provided by CitC.Piper and CitC make working productively with a single, monolithic source repository possible at the scale of the Google codebase. The design and architecture of these systems were both heavily influenced by the trunk-based development paradigm employed at Google, as described here.The article mentions tight integration with the code review, code search and build tools, they are my main reasons for my personal reasons for liking this setup.The “all code in one place” abstraction is great. I’ve worked for companies where even at the scale of a 100 engineers, they have found it hard keep code in one repo problematic.The build system, the continuous integration tools, the code search, the code ownership model and code review tools all working together with the version control system really feel like a seamless extension of the version control system.Without distributed builds, and reuse of builds, it would be very painful to have to redo build and you’d just resort to using compiled artifacts that are seldom updated. This is a good talk about the Google build infrastructure.Since the builds use blaze - open sourced as Bazel -, it’s easy to understand and write build rules for just about every language, i.e. you don’t need to learn compiler or linker flags for a language. I highly recommend that if you are using some other build system, you consider looking into determining if Bazel is good for your needs.Most code search tools I’ve used are unwieldy. The code searching tools are usually an afterthought, run on some poorly supported server with a non up to date index. Search results are whatever the some locally generated half baked index decided to throw your way first, usually a reflection of the alphabetical ordering of your file vs. the most relevant code references.The internal code searching tools at Google are fantastic by comparison: there isn’t just text searching, there is semantic searching enabled by tight integration with the build system. The code search uses the build file to have accurate references to symbols rather than text. The best results are usually the first results. Sound familiar?Bonus points for great integration with Protobufs - generated methods can be easily followed to the underlying protocol buffer fields.Development happens at head, rather than pinning libraries to versions. Scenarios like a giant upgrade to a new library version that breaks your app that you can’t track down to a change are rare. Conversely, you continually keep getting small updates.Unit tests and good continuous integration are mandatory to make a system of development at head work. I’ve seen development at head attempted at past jobs, but without such a strong investment in tests, it’s failed rather miserably with code bases much smaller.About the why - there are technical reasons, and there are cultural reasons, though in my personal opinion, the positive effects on development culture are what I’d cite as the biggest reason to adopt a similar setup of version control + tightly integrated tools to have all code in one large monolithic repo.It’s easy to move from one job within Google to another, or more importantly, improve or fix a bug in code that you use. The process to commit code is very standardized - the build, testing, review and code browsing tools have the same processes.The friction and long term accumulating penalties for engineers not touching code because they are siloed away from them is incredibly underappreciated in software organizations.All code in one place makes collaboration with parts of the company far removed from you easier, and lets you build upon each other’s work.It makes searching the code easier. No weird problems like you some code referring to some other code, but then are a few steps removed from the code with the implementation. You can see code usage more easily, and thus examples that you can learn from.

The article you linked describes the Piper/CitC workflow as best as any external resource would. These technologies are Google proprietary and your only hope of learning about them is to read such papers.For a list of publications from Googlers, Research at Google is your best resource. Currently there are no hits for CitC (Clients in the Cloud) or papers on Piper.

I've been a fan of Camila Cabello for 2 years now.Before I became a Camilizer, I remember I heard Camila's song “Never Be The Same” on the radio not long after it had been released (Dec. 2017), and I watched the music video once because I liked the song…Anyway, fast forward to mid 2018. I can still remember the day I first started listening to her music and becoming a fan.I was watching one of those “nostalgic songs from 2017” Youtube videos… “Crying In The Club” was included in the video and I vaguely remembered hearing it before. Later that day I found myself humming CITC, so I decided to find the music video. I then tracked down another song that was played in the CITC music video, “I Have Questions”.Immediate obsession.I subscribed to Camila’s Youtube channel right then, and saw that she had just released a song with Bazzi, “Beautiful”, and I also found “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. Obsessed. I also then realised that Never Be The Same was one of Camila's songs, and I played it again too.For a long time, I'd just play those 5 songs on repeat everyday.October 2018. I'm having a really rough night and am feeling pretty bad mentally. I open Youtube, and “Something's Gotta Give” was in my recommended. I listened to it for the first time, and I swear, it was like love at first sight but for music. I listened to it over and over again until I was able to fall asleep.I never stopped listening to that song after that day.And the rest is history.Honestly, around May 2019 is when I really started becoming obsessed with Camila, and it hasn't left me since.I have gone through a lot of phases liking many different artists, from Taylor Swift, to Billie Eilish, to Twenty One Pilots, but the only one who has always remained a constant favourite is Camila Cabello.Camilizer forever <3