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The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely Orosz 63 Episodes Jul 1, 2026

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

How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry Jul 1, 2026 8821 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 Jun 24, 2026 5349 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• Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra.—Navdeep Singh –
CI/CD with Robert Erez Jun 17, 2026 4488 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 Jun 3, 2026 10269 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 May 27, 2026 4805 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 May 20, 2026 3899 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 May 13, 2026 4509 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 Apr 29, 2026 5587 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 Apr 22, 2026 5100 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 Apr 8, 2026 6374 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) Apr 1, 2026 5935 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 Mar 18, 2026 4237 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

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