The Pragmatic Engineer
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The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies
Also: do us engineers truly enjoy ‘hard problems’, or do we really just want to solve those which attract promotions, new open models launch in the EU and US, and more
Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
Sam Newman joins me to discuss when to use microservices, how to build resilient distributed systems, and how AI is changing software development.
The state of the tech industry in 2026
A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Firebase: global outage & poor handling by Google. The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google did not update the status page or offer any postmortem, which is a head-scratcher from a company known for standout incident management practices. OpenAI’s platform play from AWS playbook?
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis
Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrificing quality.
Why has Shopify dropped React Native?
It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the reason, unsurprisingly, is AI
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
37signals – the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR) – moves over to agents generating nearly all its code. Also: Amazon and Meta struggle to hire engineers, code reviews will probably also go away and more
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton on what engineers can learn from designers, working with AI agents, and why human judgment still matters.
How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows
Deepdive into the Windows team’s efforts to make the OS “AI agent-friendly” and win back developers by going all-in on Linux on Windows, local models, GPUs, & more
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock explains how he uses AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software, and why engineering fundamentals matter more than ever.
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI