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The Pulse #151: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
Also: OpenAI becomes for-profit and takes on Chrome, NVIDIA the biggest Big Tech by a distance, Citibank annoys premium customers for weeks with…
22 hrs ago
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Gergely Orosz
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Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani
Google’s Head of Chrome Developer Experience, Addy Osmani, shares how AI is transforming the way we code—accelerating development while still relying on…
Oct 29
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Gergely Orosz
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1:08:25
San Francisco is back as the world’s leading tech hub
Impressions from a week in San Fran spent visiting engineering teams at Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, Wispr, Factory, and more
Oct 28
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: AWS takes down a good part of the internet
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global…
Oct 23
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Gergely Orosz
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What is good software architecture?
What good architecture looks like, how to improve your skill at building it –and why Architects are not always the answer. Guest post by Matthew…
Oct 21
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Gergely Orosz
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Matthew Hawthorne
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Google’s engineering culture
Elin Nilsson and I unpack how Google’s engineering culture, tools, and systems actually work behind the scenes.
Oct 15
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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2:46:20
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3
Which tools do software engineers use for observability, oncall tooling, feature flags, frontend & mobile work, and for developer tooling? Results from…
Oct 14
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #149: New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents
Also: the ACP protocol, AI security tooling, comparing interview experiences across 8 tech companies, and more
Oct 9
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Gergely Orosz
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Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher
Flask creator and former Sentry engineer Armin Ronacher discusses how programming languages and AI are reshaping how developers build software.
Oct 8
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Gergely Orosz
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1:14:11
State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025: what hiring managers see
Observations by 30+ hiring managers and tech recruiters about what’s happening: a flood of inbound applications means more selective hiring, there’s…
Oct 7
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #148: Did OpenAI set a new record for Datadog spend?
A reported $170M per year is almost triple Coinbase’s previous record. Also: the largest British automaker learns that outsourcing cybersecurity was a…
Oct 2
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Gergely Orosz
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September 2025
Inside Google’s Engineering Culture: the Tech Stack (Part 2)
Deepdive into how Google works from SWEs’ perspectives at the Tech Giant: planet-scale infra, tech stack, internal tools, and more
Sep 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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