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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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68:26

Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/10/29

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’ve definitely used features Addy has built. He’s also the author of several books, including his

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166:20

Google’s engineering culture

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/10/15

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 at maybe 10 or 15 giants until now. Check out Statsig.•⁠ Linear – The system for modern product

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74:12

Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/10/08

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 building everything within a unified platform. Check out Statsig.•⁠ Linear – The system for modern product

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104:21

High-growth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/09/24

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 Statsig.•⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Here’s an interesting story: OpenAI

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90:17

Code Complete with Steve McConnell

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/09/10

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 Statsig.•⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Here’s an interesting story: OpenAI

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79:37

The state of VC within software and AI startups –...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/08/06

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 numbers: why fewer companies are getting funded despite record VC investment levels, how hiring has

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71:30

Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering –...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/07/23

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 (or not) AI tools are actually working inside engineering orgs. Laura shares insights from DX’s research

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93:41

Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/07/16

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 Google, as well as some time at Grab before briefly retiring from tech. Now out of retirement, he’s

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73:17

What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/07/09

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 what the Principal role actually involves, why the path from Senior to Principal is so tough, and how

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47:03

How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/07/02

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 from GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, and Anthropic, the company has had a head start in figuring out what

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87:14

The present, past and future of GitHub

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/06/18

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 Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. Thomas has been a GitHub user for 16

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75:31

TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/06/11

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 of Test-Driven Development (TDD), he’s shaped how teams write, test, and think about code.Now, with over

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64:06

50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/06/04

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 Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI at Microsoft. Scott has been with the company for 28

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69:30

From Software Engineer to AI Engineer – with Janvi Kalra

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/05/28

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. Janvi shares how she broke into tech with internships at top companies, landed a full-time software

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68:47

How Kubernetes is Built with Kat Cosgrove

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/05/14

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 several Kubernetes releases. Kat has been contributing to Kubernetes for several years, and originally got

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87:54

Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/05/07

Supported by Our Partners•⁠ CodeRabbit⁠⁠ — Cut code review time and bugs in half. Use the code PRAGMATIC to get one month free.•⁠ Modal⁠ — The cloud platform for building AI applications—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 an AI-native IDE (Windsurf) —and how these tools are changing the way software gets built. We

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75:27

How to work better with Product, as an Engineer with...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/04/30

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 partnered with after stepping into engineering management at Uber, and we both learned a lot together. We

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86:08

Building Reddit’s iOS and Android app

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/04/23

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 this.In 2021, Reddit started to double down on hiring native mobile engineers, and they quietly rebuilt

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87:41

Working at Amazon as a software engineer – with Dave...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/04/16

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 Amazon lingo) and eventually becoming a Director of Engineering. In this episode, he shares a candid look

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81:23

The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2025/04/09

Supported by Our Partners•⁠ CodeRabbit⁠⁠ — Cut code review time and bugs in half. Use the code PRAGMATIC to get one month free.•⁠ Modal⁠ — The cloud platform for building AI applications.—How will AI tools change software engineering? Tools like Cursor, Windsurf and Copilot are getting better at autocomplete, generating tests and documentation. But what is changing, when it comes to software design?Stanford professor John Ousterhout thinks not much. In fact, he believes that great software design is

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