The Pragmatic Engineer
by Gergely Orosz
Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson
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Uber’s AI infra, from the inside
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Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
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Distributed databases with Peter Mattis
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Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
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AI Skills with Matt Pocock
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Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
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Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
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From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
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Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
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Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
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Context engineering with Dex Horthy
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The Pragmatic Engineer AMA
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How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
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Tech interviews with NeetCode
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CI/CD with Robert Erez
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Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
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Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
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Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
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TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
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Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a…
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Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Martin Kleppmann is a researcher and the author...
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DHH’s new way of writing code
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Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Thuan Pham was Uber's first and longest-serving...
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Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee
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From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
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Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Boris Cherny is the creator and Head of Claude...
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Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code
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The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
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The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
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The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve…
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How AWS S3 is built
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The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
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Being a founding engineer at an AI startup
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Code security for software engineers
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How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler
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Netflix’s Engineering Culture
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From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
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Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani
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Google’s engineering culture
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Something interesting is happening with the latest generation of tech giants. Rather than building advanced experimentation tools themselves, companies like Anthropic, Figma, Notion and a bunch…
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Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Most teams end up in this situation: ship a feature to 10% of users, wait a week, check three different tools, try to correlate the data, and you’re still unsure if it worked. The problem is that...
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Hypergrowth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of...
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Code Complete with Steve McConnell
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of...
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The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
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Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
Supported by Our Partners • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. — There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise? In this episode of...
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Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. — Steve Yegge is known for his writing and “rants”, including the famous...
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What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh
Supported by Our Partners • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love. — Steve Huynh spent 17 years at Amazon, including four as a...
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How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. — What happens when a company goes all in on AI? At Shopify, engineers are...
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The present, past and future of GitHub
Supported by Our Partners • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — GitHub recently turned 17 years old—but how did it start, how…
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TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck
Supported by Our Partners • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love. — Kent Beck is one of the most influential figures in modern...
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