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The Pragmatic Engineer

by Gergely Orosz

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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Position in the Technology chart (US), last 90 days.

#22
all-time peak
104
days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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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

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

Jul 29
1 h 23 min

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

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

Jul 15
1 h 32 min

The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

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

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

Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

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

May 20
1 h 04 min

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

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 13
1 h 15 min

Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Apr 29
1 h 33 min

Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Apr 22
1 h 25 min

DHH’s new way of writing code

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Apr 8
1 h 46 min

Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Apr 1
1 h 38 min

Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Mar 18
1 h 10 min

From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automate

Mar 11
1 h 31 min

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#62 ▼ 8 Technology US

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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.

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