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Real-world Engineering Challenges #8: Breaking up a Monolith
A deep dive into how Khan Academy took a 1 million-line Python monolith and split it into ~40 Go services in a more than 3 year-long project.
Gergely Orosz
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The Scoop #37: Emerging trends across the industry
Aggressive performance reviews, tech companies committing to protecting jobs, an increase of solo mobile developers, and more.
Gergely Orosz
Feb 2
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January 2023
What is a Staff+ Engineer?
What the Staff+ role is, expectations and the rewarding and frustrating parts of the job. By former principal engineer Nicky Wrightson.
Gergely Orosz
Jan 31
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Google’s Historic Job Cuts
The tech giant unexpectedly announced a 6% reduction in its workforce. Why did this happen, which areas are impacted, and why is Apple unlikely to…
Gergely Orosz
Jan 26
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Code Deployment Freezes: Part 2
Code freeze trends across industries, when to mandate a code freeze – and when not, and alternatives to code freezes.
Gergely Orosz
Jan 24
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The Scoop #36: Microsoft’s layoffs and its impact on the industry
Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs all announced mass layoffs. What do these events suggest about the outlook for the tech industry?
Gergely Orosz
Jan 19
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Compensation Increases in 2023
What salary increases are software engineers getting across the tech industry, and are there any notable trends? 100 data points, analyzed.
Gergely Orosz
Jan 17
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Inside Pollen's Transparent Compensation Data
An exclusive inside look at the pay philosophy, regional differences and numbers of the defunct events tech startup. Based on 430 data points.
Gergely Orosz
Jan 12
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Becoming a Fractional CTO
What the role is and challenges that come with it, getting into fractional CTO roles, and lessons learned.
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Sergio Pereira
Jan 10
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The Scoop #35: Holiday security breaches and outages
While most of the tech world was on holiday, CircleCI suffered a major security breach, and Twitter had an outage. Also: hiring freezes and layoffs, and…
Gergely Orosz
Jan 5
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Code Deployment Freezes: Part 1
At the end of last year, code deployments were frozen at many tech companies. Why was this done, what are the benefits, and what are the tradeoffs of…
Gergely Orosz
Jan 3
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December 2022
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2022
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of a busy year in tech news.
Gergely Orosz
Dec 20, 2022
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