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. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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Episodes (58)
Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
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Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee
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From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
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Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny
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Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code
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The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
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The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
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The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
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How AWS S3 is built
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The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
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Being a founding engineer at an AI startup
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Code security for software engineers
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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
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Google’s engineering culture
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Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher
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Hypergrowth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein
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Code Complete with Steve McConnell
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The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
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Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
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Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
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What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh
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How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
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The present, past and future of GitHub
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TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck
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50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie
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From Software Engineer to AI Engineer – with Janvi Kalra
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How Kubernetes is Built with Kat Cosgrove
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Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
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How to work better with Product, as an Engineer with Ebi Atawodi
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Building Reddit’s iOS and Android app
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Working at Amazon as a software engineer – with Dave Anderson
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The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
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Stacked diffs and tooling at Meta with Tomas Reimers
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Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman
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How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
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Design-first software engineering: Craft – with Balint Orosz
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The man behind the Big Tech comics – with Manu Cornet
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Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of...
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Live streaming at world-record scale with Ashutosh Agrawal
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AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
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Building a best-selling game with a tiny team – with Jonas Tyroller
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Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors
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“The Coding Machine” at Meta with Michael Novati
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Confessions of a Big Tech recruiter
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Shipping projects at Big Tech with Sean Goedecke
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Notion: going native on iOS and Android
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