Responsible Software Engineering: With Real-World Case Studies from Google
About this ebook
Responsible Software Engineering gathers the wisdom of over 100 Google employees to help you anticipate the effects of your software on the world and its inhabitants. It features expert advice and practical case studies so you can build better applications that are more ready for real-world situations:
- Treating people more fairly, regardless of their beliefs, culture, skin tone, and other attributes
- Operating more safely, to reduce the risk of physical, psychological, or financial harm
- Better protecting people's privacy, particularly when collecting personal information
- Incorporating wisdom from the social sciences, law, ethics, and other fields that many engineers may be unfamiliar with
- Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), to address the risks of climate change
About the author
Daniel J. Barrett, PhD, has been a software engineer for almost 40 years at startups, medium-sized, and large companies. He is currently a senior manager at Google and worked previously at VistaPrint, Merrill Lynch, D.E. Shaw & Co., and Air Products & Chemicals. In addition to Responsible Software Engineering, Dan has written numerous other O’Reilly books such as Linux Pocket Guide, Efficient Linux at the Command Line, Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide, MediaWiki, Linux Security Cookbook, and SSH, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide. Learn more at DanielJBarrett.com.
