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The Pulse #63: Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech
Also: are we about to see a spike in startup shutdowns; and is downlevelling becoming more common across Big Tech?
Sep 28
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Gergely Orosz
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Cloud Development Environment Vendors
Remote development is an increasingly hot trend across the industry, with more vendors launching every year. A thorough overview of 28 cloud development…
Sep 26
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The Pulse #62: The End of the Tech IPO Winter
Tech IPOs are back: Arm, Instacart and Klaviyo have gone public. Also: lessons from Bun disrupting the Node ecosystem; Twillio’s iconic billboard change…
Sep 21
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Gergely Orosz
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How Big Tech does Quality Assurance (QA)
Most Big Tech companies have no dedicated SDET, QA, or tester roles. How do they produce quality software? A look into how Microsoft, Google, Meta…
Sep 19
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The Pulse #61: What’s going on at Google Cloud?
Google Cloud caused an outage at a scaleup, after lowering a quota; and months later the same outage repeated. Also: what were perf reviews like at…
Sep 14
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How Uber Built its Observability Platform
Uber built an in-house observability platform called M3 to cope with huge quantities of data, as the business grew with breackneck speed. Martin Mao…
Sep 12
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Gergely Orosz
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Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense…
Sep 7
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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?
Tech companies are building their cloud development environments (CDEs) and dozens of vendors are launching their offerings. But why now? An overview of…
Sep 5
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August 2023
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey, Part 2
The consultancy giant has devised a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and…
Aug 31
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The Pulse #60: Tech IPOs are back!
Also: Instacart cutting on Snowflake spend while onboarding to Databricks; Why companies go public; Scaleups that could IPO in 2023; and ChatGPT’s…
Aug 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and…
Aug 29
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The Pulse #59: NVIDIA's Massive Growth and the Generative AI Boom
Also: growth slowing at Adyen; McKinsey now selling developer productivity measurement; and why it’s so hard to build the “developer cloud.”
Aug 24
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Gergely Orosz
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