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The Pulse #108: Elasticsearch unexpectedly goes open source again
Also: Amazon cuts the number of managers, engineers critiquing YouTube’s biggest critic, and key people keep quitting OpenAI.
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #105: More trad tech companies to move off the public cloud?
Also: CockroachDB joins the trend of going from open source to proprietary license, a software glitch nearly floods Amsterdam, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
The Pulse #104: The startup purge event is, unfortunately, here
Also: Sonos’ app rewrite was a disastrous YOLO release, similarities between AI companies and telco companies, what it’s like to test compilers, and…
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Gergely Orosz
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Surprise uptick in software engineering recruitment
June and July are usually the quietest months for tech recruitment. This year there’s been a spike in interest from recruiters in software engineers and…
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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 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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Gergely Orosz
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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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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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What Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 2
How has the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man-Month,’ aged with time, and how have architecture approaches and tech org structures…
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Gergely Orosz
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