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Also: hiring continues to slow at Meta and a look at Figma’s $20B exit.

Sep 29

Two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto vitillo

Sep 28

To consolidate languages, frameworks, technologies, or not to consolidate them? A roundup of approaches.

Sep 27

“Politics” has a bad reputation in tech companies. What is it, why is it important, and how can you get good at the “right” type of politics?

Sep 20

Exclusive details about the collapse of the formerly high-flying startup. Could tech employees have known sooner they were on a sinking ship?

Sep 19

Amazon slowing hiring and Booking.com rescinding offers in some countries. Also: why is there an uptick in layoffs?

Sep 15

A broad overview of the data engineering field by former Facebook data engineer Benjamin Rogojan.

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Sep 13

Snap and Uber are closing offices, while Apple is mandating a return to the office. And more.

Sep 8

What I’ve learned about the newsletter business, plans for the coming year, and some numbers.

Sep 7

“Politics” has a bad reputation in tech companies. What is it, why is it important, and how can you get good at the “right” type of politics?

Sep 6

The end of Netflix’s 25-year policy of one level for all software engineers. Also, pay rises across Shopify and Oracle, and more.

Sep 1

Resilient payments systems, large-scale data storage with OLTP and OLAP systems, platform team challenges, and more.

Aug 30

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