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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
Sep 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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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.
Sep 23
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Sep 9
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
254
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The present, past and future of GitHub
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shares how the company evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work and junior hiring, and how AI tools like Copilot are…
Jun 18
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Jun 10
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Gergely Orosz
535
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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…
Mar 12
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Gergely Orosz
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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
Jan 28
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Dec 17, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
189
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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…
Nov 12, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
215
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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…
Oct 31, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Oct 23, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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1:18:51
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…
Aug 27, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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