T2 wanted to take on Twitter, but has shut down one year later – not before sharing learnings. Also: Replit organizes a tender offer for employees, and the outstanding launch of my book. | Continue reading
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook has taken more than four years to write – and it’s finally ready! I hope you find it a useful resource which serves your career well | Continue reading
Also: how AWS prioritized enterprise customers with postmortems, learnings from Vercel’s customer incident, and the struggle to hire product-minded Android engineers in the US. | Continue reading
This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals? | Continue reading
Also: the largest DDoS attack to date mitigated; AWS quickly reversed the banning of re:Invent community apps; and advice for engineers considering joining a bootstrapped company. | Continue reading
Manu Cornet created some of the most referenced Big Tech comics, with a special focus on Google and Twitter. Today, he shares how he started doing comics and his creative process. | Continue reading
Engineers at FTX, Frank and Pollen were asked to do something potentially criminal. Find out how they responded. Also: update on the author of an impressive side project, who got an offer at PostHog | Continue reading
Meta and Google have been using stacking for closer to a decade: a coding workflow that is very efficient for small PRs. So what is stacking, and how come it’s not more widespread in the industry? | Continue reading
Also: an update on Linear after their $35M fundraise; why does Chrome direct valid domains to Google Searh; and the dangers of discussion employer-confidential stuff on semi-public Slack groups. | Continue reading
From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley. Cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story, and offers advice for aspiring founders currently at tech companies. | Continue reading
HashiCorp changes its license, while Insomnia looks for ways for users to create personal accounts. Is commercial open source software (COSS) becoming more or less sustainable with these changes? | Continue reading
We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now | Continue reading
Also: are we about to see a spike in startup shutdowns; and is downlevelling becoming more common across Big Tech? | Continue reading
Remote development is an increasingly hot trend across the industry, with more vendors launching every year. A thorough overview of 28 cloud development startups and open source solutions. | Continue reading
Tech IPOs are back: Arm, Instacart and Klaviyo have gone public. Also: lessons from Bun disrupting the Node ecosystem; Twillio’s iconic billboard change and more pulse on the industry. | Continue reading
Most Big Tech companies have no dedicated SDET, QA, or tester roles. How do they produce quality software? A look into how Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber and Netflix do it. | Continue reading
Google Cloud caused an outage at a scaleup, after lowering a quota; and months later the same outage repeated. Also: what were perf reviews like at Meta, and do two GCP zones share the same building? | Continue reading
Uber built an in-house observability platform called M3 to cope with huge quantities of data, as the business grew with breackneck speed. Martin Mao, former manager on the team, shares the story. | Continue reading
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. So did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Exclusive. | Continue reading
Tech companies are building their cloud development environments (CDEs) and dozens of vendors are launching their offerings. But why now? An overview of how this landscape evolved the past decade. | Continue reading
The consultancy giant has devised a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach. Part 2. | Continue reading
Also: Instacart cutting on Snowflake spend while onboarding to Databricks; Why companies go public; Scaleups that could IPO in 2023; and ChatGPT’s enterprise plan. | Continue reading
The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach. | Continue reading
Also: Twilio’s iconic billboard replaced in San Francisco; McKinsey now selling developer productivity measurement; and why it’s so hard to build the “developer cloud.” | Continue reading
A technical deep dive into concepts involved in developing a fun game | Continue reading
Also: Stack Overflow’s traffic decline; SAP migration causes outage at Booking.com, Amazon enforces RTO and a senior engineer's job hunt story. | Continue reading
Commonly used machine learning (ML) tools, a day in the life of an ML engineer, and typical paths into the ML field. | Continue reading
Also: details behind the salary bands at Wise; Hopin selling its events tech business; Startup shutdowns trending up; and Uber posting its first operating profits. | Continue reading
Hiring managers and experienced engineers at more than 50 companies share how they observe the hiring market changing. Insights from the US, EU, UK and other regions. | Continue reading
A representative log of what one day might look like for a Senior Manager at Amazon. Guest post from former Amazon director Dave Anderson | Continue reading
How the role is typically defined at medium and large-sized venture-funded companies. Details from Honeycomb, Wise, Miro, Travelperk, Sentry, Sourcegraph, Remote.com and Urban Sports Club | Continue reading
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman. At a time when venture funding is harder to get, and acquisitions are trickier to close, she shares what worked for her and offers honest advice. | Continue reading
A DNS mystery at Adevinta; A failover causing an outage at GitHub; The challenge whether to do a rollback at Reddit; and the difference between public and internal postmortems. | Continue reading
Bird and VanMoof are likely to go out of business. Also: a stricter promotions process at Amazon, and advice on selling developer tools when most companies cut spending. | Continue reading
The Painfully Precise, The Philosopher, The Approachable One, The Detailed Documenter and 8 more archetypes. | Continue reading
Also: Instagram Threads going head-to-head with Twitter, the old concept of ‘slotting’ at Google and OpsGenie was down again. | Continue reading
How the role is typically defined by Big Tech and at larger tech companies, and frameworks for thinking about seniority. | Continue reading
Google Domains was a favored registrar among devs. What other registrars do they recommend? Also: Atlassian flattening its engineering org, and Amazon pushes back MBA new grad hires. | Continue reading
Software engineers at large tech companies are developing less locally, and more with remote dev environments. But what is the idea behind CDEs and how are companies building their own? A deep dive. | Continue reading
The search giant is shutting down Google Domains, Google Cloud Domains, and selling its customer accounts to Salesforce. What’s the impact on Google Cloud? Also: Google’s Duet AI pricing and capabilit | Continue reading
Reflecting on the tech market from compensation, VC funding and RTO dimensions. What are the fundamental shifts happening that we’ve not seen in more than a decade? | Continue reading
Also: why Meta is reducing its number of managers, HashiCorp’s ‘optimized’ job cuts process and an explosion of developers using AI coding tools. | Continue reading
The application stack running on the private cloud, Agoda’s cloud strategy, and whether to move to the cloud or stay on-prem. | Continue reading
Also: pay rises at Shopify, potential buyers of Lyft, and advice on how to split compensation between cash and stock | Continue reading
A deep dive into the e-commerce giant’s major change to its engineering levels, including a look at the levels before and after the revamp, how and why these new levels could benefit the company, and | Continue reading
Also: analyzing job cuts at Lyft, the death of Robinhood’s remote work experiment, and an edicational Uber simulation side project that engineers can use as inspiration for their own ones. | Continue reading
The evolution of data centers; the hardware inside data centers, and availability zones inside Agoda, and a tour of the DCs. Exclusive details. | Continue reading
Also: a 1.5-month code freeze at Stack Overflow, early warning signs of cuts at AWS, and details on when Amazon will join the generative AI race. | Continue reading