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The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers
Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #101: Did AWS forget it’s a cloud infra company?
Also: why GitLab is seeking a buyer, how Alexa got left behind in conversational AI, and Cloudflare offering customers less AI – because those customers…
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Gergely Orosz
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AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2024: Reality Check (Part 1)
How do software engineers utilize GenAI tools in their software development workflow? We sidestep the hype, and look to the reality of tech…
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #100: Large AI Players Snap Up Smaller Ones
Also: why dev tools ask for work email, the “Big Stay” phenomenon, ChatGPT usage stalls then recovers, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
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What is Old is New Again
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does this mean for businesses, dev teams, and what will pragmatic software…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #99: Relational databases here to stay as good fits for AI?
Also: $415M not enough for founders to stay at startup; France targeting NVIDIA with antitrust; a standout dev tools success story at GitLab, and more.
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The Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation Revisited
Why does a similar position have 2-4x compensation differences, in the same market? A closer look at the trimodal model I published in 2021. More data…
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June 2024

The Pulse #98: Is there a GenAI startup cooldown or not?
Plenty of signs point to a cooldown happening, but there’s also GenAI mega-funding rounds. Also: Polyfill.js supply-chain attack, the importance of…
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Gergely Orosz
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A startup on hard mode: Oxide, Part 2. Software & Culture
Oxide is a hardware and a software startup, assembling hardware for their Cloud Computer, and building the software stack from the ground up. A deep…
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Gergely Orosz
The Pulse #97: Lone hacker takes down North Korea’s internet
Also: what NVIDIA becoming the world’s most valuable company says about AI, controversy at Slack and Adobe about terms and conditions in the GenAI era…
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What’s Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 3
How has the industry changed 50 years after the ‘The Mythical Man-Month’ was published? A look into estimations, developer productivity and prototyping…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #96: Apple demonstrates AI is best as many small features
Apple showcased how generative AI will spread across its operating systems, and how users can expect it to be free. Also: a new standard in confidential…
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