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The Pulse #105: More trad tech companies to move off the public cloud?
Also: CockroachDB joins the trend of going from open source to proprietary license, a software glitch nearly floods Amsterdam, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
Paying down tech debt
A guide for reducing tech debt effectively, and how to develop a mindset that welcomes the short-term benefits of eliminating it. A guest post by…
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Gergely Orosz
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Lou Franco
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August 2024

Leading Effective Engineering Teams: a Deepdive
What makes software teams effective, and how do the TL, EM and TLM roles differ? An excerpt from Addy Osmani’s new book: Leading Effective Engineering…
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Gergely Orosz
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Addy Osmani
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How Anthropic built Artifacts
The team behind Artifacts - an innovative new way to interact with Claude - shares how they built this innovative feature in just three months with a…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #104: The startup purge event is, unfortunately, here
Also: Sonos’ app rewrite was a disastrous YOLO release, similarities between AI companies and telco companies, what it’s like to test compilers, and…
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Gergely Orosz
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Adopting Software Engineering Practices Across the Team
Common software engineering practices, adopting them within a team, and why blindly adopting practices is a bad idea
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #103: Why did AWS just sunset 8 products?
AWS rarely discontinues products, but now it’s sunsetting eight in one go. Also: GenAI investments are money pits, and the “wicked loop” of problems at…
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Gergely Orosz
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AI Tooling for Software Engineers: Reality Check (Part 2)
How do software engineers using AI tools view their impact at work? We sidestep the hype to find out how these cutting-edge tools really perform, from…
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #102: Intel’s rough business outlook and full reorg
Also: AI startup founders keep defecting to Big Tech, buggy app takes Sonos 6 months to fix, CrowdStrike faces huge bills for historic global outage…
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Gergely Orosz
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Surprise uptick in software engineering recruitment
June and July are usually the quietest months for tech recruitment. This year there’s been a spike in interest from recruiters in software engineers and…
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Gergely Orosz
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July 2024

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