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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
Dec 23
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Gergely Orosz
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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
Dec 18
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Gergely Orosz
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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.
Dec 17
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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…
Dec 16
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Gergely Orosz
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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
Dec 11
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Gergely Orosz
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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.
Dec 10
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Dec 9
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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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.
Dec 4
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Gergely Orosz
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Being a founding engineer at an AI startup
Michelle Lim shares how to evaluate early-stage startup roles, negotiate equity, and grow into a high-impact founding engineer.
Dec 3
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Gergely Orosz
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A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
Evals are a new toolset for any and all AI engineers – and software engineers should also know about them. Move from guesswork to a systematic…
Dec 2
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Gergely Orosz
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Hamel Husain
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November 2025
Code security for software engineers
Johannes Dahse, VP of Code Security at Sonar, breaks down where vulnerabilities really come from, how developers can prevent them, and how AI is…
Nov 26
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Gergely Orosz
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Holiday gift ideas for techies
Gift ideas and inspiration for the tech workers in your life (and maybe yourself) this holiday season
Nov 25
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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