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Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
Gautam Korlam, former principal engineer at Uber and co-founder of Gitar, joins the podcast to discuss scaling engineering teams, the challenges of…
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Gergely Orosz
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Taking on Google search: Perplexity and Kagi
Google’s dominance of web search is being challenged by innovative, fast-moving startups. A deepdive into two promising contenders: Perplexity and Kagi
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Gergely Orosz
How Shopify Built Its Live Globe for Black Friday
Shopify has built a surprisingly fun and engaging Black Friday / Cyber Monday visual tracker, simulating a spaceship's interior. A deepdive in how this…
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How to debug large, distributed systems: Antithesis
A brief history of debugging, why debugging large systems is different, and how the “multiverse debugger” built by Antithesis attempts to take on this…
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #113: Engineering culture at Google vs Meta
Also: AI now generates 25% of code at Google; Deep cuts at profitable companies like Dropbox and Miro; Business booming at the likes of Google, Meta and…
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Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote)
You may not be familiar with Bending Spoons, but I guarantee you’ve encountered some of their well-known products, like Evernote and Meetup. In today’s…
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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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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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Inside Bluesky’s Engineering Culture
A deep dive into how a fully remote, open source-first, tech company is building a challenger social media platform. What can small teams learn from…
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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Startups on hard mode: Oxide. Part 1: Hardware
What is tougher than building a software-only or hardware-only startup? Building a combined hardware and software startup. This is what Oxide is doing…
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Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture: Part 2
Stripe is one of the world’s largest online payment companies. This article is a deep dive into its engineering culture: operational excellence, API…
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Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture - Part 1
Stripe is one of the largest online payment companies and operates one of the world’s largest Ruby codebases. But there’s more to Stripe than payments…
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