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Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • turbopuffer – a

Nov 5
1 h 18 min

Software engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters

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 develop

Oct 29
1 h 40 min

The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson

Brought to You By: • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. • Entire – Git hosting, rebui

Oct 21
1 h 55 min

Uber’s AI infra, from the inside

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 develop

Oct 14
1 h 33 min

Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

Brought to You By: • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. • Entire – Git hosting, rebui

Oct 7
1 h 58 min

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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 develop

Sep 30
1 h 41 min

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

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: Sca

Sep 23
1 h 27 min

AI Skills with Matt Pocock

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 develop

Sep 17
1 h 35 min

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

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 sys

Sep 9
1 h 13 min

Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry – applica

Aug 26
1 h 52 min

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

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

Aug 19
1 h 31 min

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – everyth

Aug 12
1 h 25 min

Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

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Jul 29
1 h 23 min

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

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Jul 15
1 h 32 min

The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

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Jul 8
1 h 18 min

How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry

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Jul 1
2 h 27 min

Tech interviews with NeetCode

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Jun 24
1 h 29 min

CI/CD with Robert Erez

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – everyth

Jun 17
1 h 14 min

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Buildkite – CI s

Jun 3
2 h 51 min

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – Everyth

May 27
1 h 20 min

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The Pragmatic Engineer podcast is one of my favorite resources for growing as a programmer. It consistently introduces me to interesting people to follow, newsletters to subscribe to, and books worth reading. The conversations are thoughtful, inspiring, and genuinely interesting, and I always come away with new ideas and perspectives I can apply to my own career. Highly recommended for anyone serious about software engineering.

Jordy1984 · Jan 2026

This show is exactly the reason I listen to podcasts. Smart people having deep discussions with domain expertise. Always a great podcast, the new episode on Google’s Engineering culture is one of the best deep dive podcasts I’ve listened to in a minute.

Loredon · Oct 2025

So many tech podcasts are either way too low-level for the podcast format, or the guest is just not a good speaker at all. This podcast nails it. Good guests, insightful interviewing, and the right level of detail for audio format.

quoth0 · Feb 2025

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