LinkedIn Tips for Highly Effective Code Review

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Szczepan Faber blog post about LinkedIn code review process. LinkedIn recently passed the milestone of having conducted one million code reviews. The head of the social networking service’s tooling shared a few learned lessons along the way.

Good code reviews with meaningful, useful comments can really help with leveling up an entire engineering organization. One of the biggest benefits of implementing company-wide code reviews has been increased standardization in LinkedIn development workflow.

Article then describes in details some interesting code review points:

  • Do I Understand the “Why”?
  • Am I Giving Positive Feedback?
  • Is My Code Review Comment Explained Well?
  • Am I Too Pedantic in My Review?

And much more… Excellent read!

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