The Pragmatic Engineer

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-building.

Google’s dominance of web search is being challenged by innovative, fast-moving startups. A deepdive into two promising contenders: Perplexity and Kagi

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In two years, the streaming giant’s valuation increased by 4x. Also: learnings from a managed database service losing customer data, and more.

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.

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

Also: how an hour-long GitHub outage is a reminder of the real cost of reliability, what Cloudflare’s recruiting statistics say about the job market, and more.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Michael Novati, Co-founder and CTO of Formation. Michael spent eight years at Meta, where he was recognized as the top code committer company-wide for several years.

A deep dive into the most popular frameworks: React Native, Flutter, native-first, and web-based technologies, and how to pick the right approach

Also: Apple fires staff over fake charities scam, AI models just keep improving, a middle manager burnout possibly on the horizon, and more.

In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Blake Stockman, former tech recruiter at Google, Meta, Uber, and YC.

Making time for bug fixing, dedicated ‘goalies’, preventing bugs, and how to create a culture quality-focused culture which minimizes them

A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and engineering leader Addy Osmani

The year’s most-read articles, some personal favorites, and a look back at a busy year in tech

In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub.

Shopify has built a surprisingly fun and engaging Black Friday / Cyber Monday visual tracker, simulating a spaceship's interior. A deepdive in how this experience was built with the dev team behind it

Also: Devin doubles down on “AI software engineer” branding, court orders Automattic to undo unethical actions against WP Engine, and a possible middle manager burnout around the corner

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.

The new audiobook of my latest title is published today, and it’s available almost everywhere – but not on the world’s biggest audiobook platform. Let me explain why…

Also: OpenAI exploring ads and military contracts, Vercel buys one-person code search startup, How the commercial sector regained lead in computing over the military, and more

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 leads groundbreaking research in embodied cognition.

Large language models are forcing tech hiring managers to adapt software engineering interview processes, fast. We look into how this is happening, and what to expect in the near future

AI-first IDEs like Cursor, WindSurf, Zed and others, are challenging Visual Studio Code’s dominance. What’s making devs switch over?

Also: why some late-stage companies don’t want to go public, possible crackdown on low-output remote engineers, and more

On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by fellow Uber alum, Sabin Roman, now the first Engineering Manager at Linear.