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Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense…

Sep 7 •

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The Pulse #63: Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

Also: are we about to see a spike in startup shutdowns; and is downlevelling becoming more common across Big Tech?

Sep 28 •

Cloud Development Environment Vendors

Remote development is an increasingly hot trend across the industry, with more vendors launching every year. A thorough overview of 28 cloud development…

Sep 26 •

The Pulse #62: The End of the Tech IPO Winter

Tech IPOs are back: Arm, Instacart and Klaviyo have gone public. Also: lessons from Bun disrupting the Node ecosystem; Twillio’s iconic billboard change…

Sep 21 •

How Big Tech does Quality Assurance (QA)

Most Big Tech companies have no dedicated SDET, QA, or tester roles. How do they produce quality software? A look into how Microsoft, Google, Meta…

Sep 19 •

The Pulse #61: What’s going on at Google Cloud?

Google Cloud caused an outage at a scaleup, after lowering a quota; and months later the same outage repeated. Also: what were perf reviews like at…

Sep 14 •

How Uber Built its Observability Platform

Uber built an in-house observability platform called M3 to cope with huge quantities of data, as the business grew with breackneck speed. Martin Mao…

Sep 12 •

Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

Tech companies are building their cloud development environments (CDEs) and dozens of vendors are launching their offerings. But why now? An overview of…

Sep 5 •

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