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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.
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Aggressive performance reviews, tech companies committing to protecting jobs, an increase of solo mobile developers, and more.
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January 2023

What the Staff+ role is, expectations and the rewarding and frustrating parts of the job. By former principal engineer Nicky Wrightson.
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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…
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Code freeze trends across industries, when to mandate a code freeze – and when not, and alternatives to code freezes.
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Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs all announced mass layoffs. What do these events suggest about the outlook for the tech industry?
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What salary increases are software engineers getting across the tech industry, and are there any notable trends? 100 data points, analyzed.
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An exclusive inside look at the pay philosophy, regional differences and numbers of the defunct events tech startup. Based on 430 data points.
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What the role is and challenges that come with it, getting into fractional CTO roles, and lessons learned.
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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…
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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…
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December 2022

The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of a busy year in tech news.
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