The Pragmatic Engineer

101:49

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/09/30

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.—How is it that a software veteran who regularly shipped ~100K of database-grade code to production each year, pre-AI, feels like he’s even more productive today, with no drop in quality? Peter Mattis is co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs,

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87:23

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/09/23

Brought to You By:• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.• O'Reilly Early Release: Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering – a free book on how to adopt and scale AI in a pragmatic way inside of engineering orgs. Complimentary, thanks to Antithesis.• Entire – every agent prompt, tool call, stored in your repo, and mirrored.—What can everyone else learn from designers and design engineers? As it turns out, there’s plenty, as I

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95:31

AI Skills with Matt Pocock

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/09/17

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 this widely-used skill – and many others – alongside being an educator, content creator, and engineer

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73:21

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/09/09

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 is one of the engineers who created Codex, and today, he heads up the Core Products & Platform org at

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112:59

Why performant code matters (but gets widely...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/08/26

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 about software performance more than today’s pod guest, Casey Muratori. He’s a programmer and videogame

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91:35

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/08/19

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 spent more than 14 years at Google, working on Chrome, DevTools, Core Web Vitals, and most recently, AI

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85:32

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/08/12

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 changing all of the industry, and there’s less and less place for skepticism. This take is from one of my

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83:42

Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/07/29

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 verification mainstream because mathematical proof of correctness will be needed when machines write most or all

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92:24

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/07/15

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 limitations – aka “context engineering” – is becoming more important for software engineers working with

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78:21

The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/07/08

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 investor).I tackle your questions on the software industry, AI, hiring, engineering organizations,

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147:01

How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/07/01

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’s guest on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, Kent Beck. He created Extreme Programming, pioneered

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89:09

Tech interviews with NeetCode

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/06/24

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 – oftentimes better known as NeetCode – is the creator of NeetCode.io, one of the most popular coding

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74:48

CI/CD with Robert Erez

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/06/17

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 longtime expert in CI/CD, deployment systems, and software delivery. Rob and I were also once colleagues on

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171:09

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/06/03

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 modems to becoming one of Google’s elite Distinguished Engineers, whom the CEO of Microsoft personally

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80:05

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/05/27

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, surging in just a few months from roughly 650,000 monthly active users to nearly 8 million, and almost 1M

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64:59

Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/05/20

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 of the most admired programming languages around – and also one of the hardest to learn. What makes

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75:09

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/05/13

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 programming language designers of all time. He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and also TypeScript

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93:07

Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/04/29

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) is built. Meanwhile, Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, and a longtime user of Pi. The pair are

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85:00

Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin...

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/04/22

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. As of this month, the second, heavily updated edition of the book is out.In this episode of Pragmatic

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106:14

DHH’s new way of writing code

The Pragmatic Engineer ·

2026/04/08

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 several books including the best-seller, Remote: Office Not Required, co-written with Jason Fried.Six

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