The Pragmatic Engineer
Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech.
Episodes
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
Brought to You By:• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable• Linear – the product development system for teams and agents• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Why is the “grill-me” skill so popular, and why does its creator swear by the importance of software fundamentals? Matt Pocock created t
Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
Brought to You By:• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Entire – Git hosting, rebuilt for the agentic era. Every agent session, prompt and tool calls: stored in your repo.—Tibo Sottiaux i
Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—There can be few people around who care ab
From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers—Addy Osmani spe
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue—In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI, but in 2026 it’s clear that AI is changin
Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—There’s a popular theory that AI will finally make formal verificat
Context engineering with Dex Horthy
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers.—Knowing how LLM contexts work and how to work around context limit
The Pragmatic Engineer AMA
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.—In this special “ask me anything” episode of Pragmatic Engineer podcast, I am in the hot seat facing questions sent in by subscribers that are read out by guest Volodymyr Giginiak, CTO and cofounder of Wordsmith AI, a legal tech startup (note: I’m an
How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Few have made as big an impact on software engineering as this week
Tech interviews with NeetCode
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CI/CD with Robert Erez
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—Robert Erez is a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, and a longti
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers—Kelsey Hightower went from a self-taught technician installing DSL m
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—OpenCode is one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools around, s
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers• Craft Conference: join Gergely, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne and others at the conference dedicated to the art and science of software delivery craft.—Rust is one
TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—Anders Hejlsberg is a living legend and one of the most influential
Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a minimalist, self-modifying AI coding agent, that is the foundation upon which OpenClaw (created by Peter Steinberger)
Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Martin Kleppmann is a researcher and the author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, one of the most influential books on modern distributed systems.
DHH’s new way of writing code
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy, co-founder and CTO of 37signals (maker of Basecamp and HEY), and the author of
Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Thuan Pham was Uber's first and longest-serving CTO, and today he’s the CTO of Faire, a B2B wholesale platform. Back when Thuan joined Uber, it had around
Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—How did a tiny team of 30 engineers build the world-famous messaging app more than a decade ago, and what can dev teams learn from that feat today? Jean Le
From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Steve Yegge has spent decades writing software and thinking about how the craft evolves. From his early years at Amazon and Google, to his influential blog
Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Boris Cherny is the creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic. He previously spent five years at Meta as a Principal Engineer and is the author of the b
Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto changed, thanks to AI tools?Mitchell Hashimoto is one of the most influential infrastructure engineer
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Andrey Breslav is the creator of Kotlin and the founder of CodeSpeak, a new programming language that aims to reduce boilerplate by replacing trivial code
The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Every few decades, software engineering is declared “dead” or on the verge of being automated away. We’ve heard versions of this story before. But what if
The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits,
How AWS S3 is built
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Amazon S3 is one of the largest distributed systems ever built, storing and serving data for a significant portion of the internet. Behind its simple inter
The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Linear — The system for modern product development.—How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems during both the Dotcom Boom and the Dotcom Bust. Today, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxid
Being a founding engineer at an AI startup
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Linear — The system for modern product development. —Michelle Lim joined Warp as engineer number one and is now building her own startup, Flint. She brings a strong product-first mindset shaped by her time at Facebook, Slack, Robinhood, and Warp. Michelle shares why she chose Warp over safer
Code security for software engineers
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig are helping make the first-ever Pragmatic Summit a reality. Join me and 400 other top engineers and leaders on 11 February, in San Francisco for a special one-day event. Reserve your spot here.• Linear — The system for modern product development. Engineering teams today move much faste
How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler
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Netflix’s Engineering Culture
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From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
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Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Linear – The system for modern product development. —Addy Osmani is Head of Chrome Developer Experience at Google, where he leads teams focused on improving performance, tooling, and the overall developer experience for building on the web. If you’ve ever opened Chrome’s Developer Tools bar, you
Google’s engineering culture
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Something interesting is happening with the latest generation of tech giants. Rather than building advanced experimentation tools themselves, companies like Anthropic, Figma, Notion and a bunch of others… are just using Statsig. Statsig has rebuilt this entire suite of data tools that was available
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Most teams end up in this situation: ship a feature to 10% of users, wait a week, check three different tools, try to correlate the data, and you’re still unsure if it worked. The problem is that each tool has its own user identification and segmentation logic. Statsig solved this problem by buildi
Hypergrowth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of Statsig - decided to acquire the company, the news announced last week. Talk about validation! Check out St
Code Complete with Steve McConnell
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of Statsig - decided to acquire the company, the news announced last week. Talk about validation! Check out St
The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
Brought to You By:• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code.—In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I sit down with Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta, to break down how venture capital and startups themselves are changing.We go deep on the n
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.—There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise?In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, to cut through the hype and share how well (o
Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code.—Steve Yegge is known for his writing and “rants”, including the famous “Google Platforms Rant” and the evergreen “Get that job at Google” post. He spent 7 years at Amazon and 13 at G
What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love.—Steve Huynh spent 17 years at Amazon, including four as a Principal Engineer. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I join Steve in his studio for a deep dive into w
How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. —What happens when a company goes all in on AI?At Shopify, engineers are expected to utilize AI tools, and they’ve been doing so for longer than most. Thanks to early access to models
The present, past and future of GitHub
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love—GitHub recently turned 17 years old—but how did it start, how has it evolved, and what does the future look like as AI reshapes developer workflows?In this episode of The
TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck
Supported by Our Partners• Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love.—Kent Beck is one of the most influential figures in modern software development. Creator of Extreme Programming (XP), co-author of The Agile Manifesto, and a pioneer o
50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sinch — Connect with customers at every step of their journey.• Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications.—How has Microsoft changed since its founding in 1975, especially in how it builds tools for developers?In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I sit down with Scot
From Software Engineer to AI Engineer – with Janvi Kalra
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sinch — Connect with customers at every step of their journey.• Cortex — Your Portal to Engineering Excellence.—What does it take to land a job as an AI Engineer—and thrive in the role?In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Janvi Kalra, currently an AI Engineer at OpenAI.
How Kubernetes is Built with Kat Cosgrove
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications.• Cortex — Your Portal to Engineering Excellence.—Kubernetes is the second-largest open-source project in the world. What does it actually do—and why is it so widely adopted?In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Kat Cosgrove, who has led se
Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
Supported by Our Partners• Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications• CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half. Use the code PRAGMATIC to get one month free.—What happens when LLMs meet real-world codebases? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by Varun Mohan, CEO and Co-Founder of Windsurf. Varun talks me through the technical challenges of building
How to work better with Product, as an Engineer with Ebi Atawodi
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well.—How do you get product and engineering to truly operate as one team? Today, I’m joined by Ebi Atawodi, Director of Product Management at YouTube Studio, and a former product leader at Netflix and Uber.Ebi was the first PM I pa
Building Reddit’s iOS and Android app
Supported by Our Partners• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Sentry — Error and performance monitoring for developers.—Reddit’s native mobile apps are more complex than most of us would assume: both the iOS and Android apps are about 2.5 million lines of code, have 500+ screens, and a total of around 200 native iOS and Android engineers work on them. But it wasn’t always like th
Working at Amazon as a software engineer – with Dave Anderson
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications• Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—What is it like to work at Amazon as a software engineer? Dave Anderson spent over 12 years at Amazon working closely with engineers on his teams: starting as an Engineering Manager (or, SDM in Amazo
The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
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Stacked diffs and tooling at Meta with Tomas Reimers
Supported by Our Partners• Swarmia — The engineering intelligence platform for modern software organizations.• Sentry — Error and performance monitoring for developers.—Why did Meta build its own internal developer tooling instead of using industry-standard solutions like GitHub? Tomas Reimers, former Meta engineer and co-founder of Graphite, joins the show to talk about Meta's custom developer to
Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman
Supported by Our Partners• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. • Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control.—How do you take a new product idea, and turn it into a successful product? Figma Slides started as a hackathon project a year and a half ago – and today it’s a full-on product, with more than 4.5M slide
How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—Linux is the most widespread operating system, globally – but how is it built? Few people are better to answer this than Greg Kroah-Hartman: a Linux kernel maintainer for 25 years, and one of the 3 Linux Kernel Foundation Fellows (the other two are Linus Tor
Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
Supported by Our Partners• Sentry — Error and performance monitoring for developers.• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by former Uber colleague, Gautam Korlam. Gautam is the Co-Founder of Gitar, an agentic AI startup that automates code maintenance. Gautam was mobile engineer no. 9
Design-first software engineering: Craft – with Balint Orosz
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well• Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love—Not many people know that I have a brother: Balint Orosz. Balint is also in tech, but in many ways, is the opposite of me. While I prefer working on backend and
The man behind the Big Tech comics – with Manu Cornet
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by a senior software engineer and cartoonist, Manu Cornet. Manu spent over a decade at Google, doing both backend and frontend development. He
Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE)
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS• CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half• Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love—How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of JioC
Live streaming at world-record scale with Ashutosh Agrawal
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS• CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half• Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love—How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of JioC
AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
Supported by Our Partners• Swarmia — The engineering intelligence platform for modern software organizations.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Chip Huyen, a computer scientist, author of the freshly published O’Reilly book AI Engineering, and an expert in a
Building a best-selling game with a tiny team – with Jonas Tyroller
Supported by Our Partners• Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS• Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Jonas Tyroller, one of the developers behind Thronefall, a minimalist indie strategy game that blends tower defense and kingdom-bui
Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors
Supported by Our Partners• Sonar — Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code.• Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—In today's episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I'm joined by Charity Majors, a well-known observability expert – as well as someone with strong and grounded opinions. Charity is the co-author of "Observability Engineering" and brings extensive expe
“The Coding Machine” at Meta with Michael Novati
Supported by Our Partners• Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Michael Novati, Co-founder and CTO of Formation. Before launching Formation, Michael spent eight years at Meta, where he was recognized as the top code committer company-wide for several years. The
Confessions of a Big Tech recruiter
Supported by Our Partners• DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers. • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I catch up with one of the best tech recruiters I’ve had the opportunity to work with: Blake Stockman, a former colleague of mine from Uber. Blake built a strong reputation in the re
Shipping projects at Big Tech with Sean Goedecke
Supported by Our PartnerDX → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. Sean is widely known for his viral blog post, “How I ship projects at big tech companies.” In our conversation, he shares how to successfully deliver projects in large tech companies.Dr
Notion: going native on iOS and Android
Supported by Our PartnerDX → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers—In today’s exciting episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by two members of the Notion mobile apps team, Austin Louden and Karn Saheb. Austin and Karn joined Notion in 2019 when Notion was revamping its mobile apps. Notion is a versatile productivity and collaboration platform that com
Software architecture with Grady Booch
Brought to you by:• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images.• Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control.—Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Grady Booch, a true legend in software development. Grady is the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM, where he l
Linear: move fast with little process (with first engineering manager Sabin Roman)
Brought to you by:• Launch Darkly — a platform for high-velocity engineering teams to release, monitor, and optimize great software. • Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images.• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.—On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by fellow Uber alum, Sabin Roman, now the first Engineering Manager at Linear. Linear
Promotions and tooling at Google (with Irina Stanescu, Ex-Google)
Brought to you by:• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Sonar — Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Irina Stanescu, a seasoned engineer with over 14 years in software engineering and engineering leadership roles at tech companies like Google and Uber. Now an engineering leadership coach, Irina helps te
Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote)
Brought to you by:• The Enterprise Ready Conference on October 30th — For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS.• DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers. • ByteByteGo — Ace your next system design interview.—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
Efficient scaleups in 2024 vs 2021: Sourcegraph (with CEO & Co-founder Quinn Slack)
Brought to you by:• Paragon: Build native, customer-facing SaaS integrations 7x faster.• WorkOS: For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS—On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a leading code search and intelligence platform. Quinn holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford and is deeply passionate about coding: to the po
AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (co-creator of Django)
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: Trailer
Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, hosted by Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. In each episode, we dive deep into the world of software engineering, offering practical insights on scaling teams, engineering leadership, and navigating the evolving tech landscape. With industry veterans and successful engineers as guests, this podcast is perfect for anyone looki
