Since stricter reviews are necessary, a lead's review is essential for code quality. Code Review However, for this to work, the lead must have the skills to provide good feedback even if they're not actively coding.
- Check all file reviewers before merge
- The person who asked resolves
- Modification suggestion
- Information question
- Reason question
Code Review Methods
Google Critique & Gerrit (open-sourced)
How Google does code review
Google has two internal code review tools: Critique, which is used by the majority of engineers, and Gerrit, which is open-sourced and continues to be used by public-facing projects. Here's how they work.
https://graphite.dev/blog/how-google-does-code-review

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-google-takes-the-pain-out-of

With Git
Post-Commit Reviews
I recently read an excellent article in the Amazon Builder's Library by Clare Liguori which goes into great detail about AWS's CI/CD architecture. It's a truly brilliant post and I recommend everyone interested in CI/CD infrastructures read the article. The article covers the gamut from unit testing to integration testing (in production) to staged rollouts in "waves" to automated rollbacks.
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/post-commit-reviews-b4cc2163ac7a

How to Kill code review which takes long time
How to Kill the Code Review
Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.
https://www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead

One of important communication and social channel among engineers
What are code reviews even for?
AI didn't break code review. It just made the parts we'd been ignoring impossible to ignore.
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/what-are-code-reviews-even-for

Architectural constraint from agentic auditing
Agentic Code Quality
Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents.
https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-code-quality


Seonglae Cho