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The Pulse #159: Long-running agents and orchestrating lots of them
One trend this year may well be experimentation with agent orchestration and long-running agents – which is already underway. Also: Claude Code bans…
 • Gergely Orosz
Design Systems for Software Engineers
A comprehensive guide to design system engineering (DSE): when it’s relevant, how AI changes things, and pointers for getting started. From Michael…
 • Gergely Orosz and Michael Abernethy
The Pulse #158: new ways of coding with AI tools
The “Ralph method” and running multiple agents at once gain popularity, AI job cuts at dev tooling and education providers, four nines of uptime after…
 • Gergely Orosz
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry
 • Gergely Orosz

December 2025

The Pragmatic Engineer in 2025
The most-read articles of the year, plus some personal favorites, and a look back at a busy year in tech
 • Gergely Orosz
The Pulse #157: Internal dev tooling at Meta & the “trajectories” feature
Also: GitHub upsets devs by charging for self-hosted CI/CD, Warsaw could become the EU’s new “tech capital”, hiring juniors is profitable now, and more
 • Gergely Orosz
The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
Bryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what today’s engineers should learn from it.
 • Gergely Orosz
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How AWS deals with a major outage
What happens when there’s a massive outage at AWS? A member of AWS’s Incident Response team lifts the lid, after playing a key role in resolving the…
 • Gergely Orosz
The Pulse #156: Beware of global configuration changes in large systems
Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more
 • Gergely Orosz
Frictionless: why great developer experience can help teams win in the ‘AI age’
Exclusive excerpts from the newly-released book ‘Frictionless’, by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda.
 • Gergely Orosz
Building MCP servers in the real world
How engineers and teams use MCP servers: from debugging to working with legacy systems, & giving non-devs more access. Details from 40+ devs – with some…
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
The Pulse #155: 5-day RTO looms for those at Big Tech?
Also: senior engineers might be more efficient with AI tools than juniors, Anthropic and Claude Code on a roll, and more.
 • Gergely Orosz
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