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Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver
Building better AI models getting more focus than lower latency, owning the full stack from applications to building custom hardware, very different…
 • Gergely Orosz, Ivan Klaric, and Jesse Spevack
Netflix’s Engineering Culture
Peek inside Netflix’s engineering culture with CTO Elizabeth Stone, as she shares how the company has no formal performance reviews, learns from…
 • Gergely Orosz
59:34
Google’s engineering culture
Elin Nilsson and I unpack how Google’s engineering culture, tools, and systems actually work behind the scenes.
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
2:46:20
Inside Google’s Engineering Culture: the Tech Stack (Part 2)
Deepdive into how Google works from SWEs’ perspectives at the Tech Giant: planet-scale infra, tech stack, internal tools, and more
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
How Claude Code is built
A rare look into how the new, popular dev tool is built, and what it might mean for the future of software building with AI. Exclusive.
 • Gergely Orosz
Inside Google's Engineering Culture: Part 1
A broad and deep dive in how Google works, from the perspective of SWEs and eng managers. What makes Google special from an engineering point of view…
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
The present, past and future of GitHub
How GitHub evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work, why it hires more junior devs than ever before, and how GH Copilot was built thanks to a…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:27:14
Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s…
 • Gergely Orosz
Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
Gautam Korlam, former Uber principal engineer and Gitar co-founder, joins the podcast to discuss scaling engineering teams, the challenges of monorepos…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:20:34
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
 • 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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
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