Real-World Engineering Challenges #7: Choosing Technologies

Choosing frameworks, languages and architecture approaches at Trello, Birdie, MetalBear and Motive. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Scoop #33: Will Google start to pay less, over time?

Also: Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers, and a look at the Ukraine tech job market. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

Real-World Engineering Challenges: Migrations

essons on migration projects from Box, Stripe, Pinterest, Doordash, LinkedIn and others. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

How Uber Is Measuring Engineering Productivity

Inside Uber’s launch of the Eng Dashboard. How do engineers and managers feel about this new tool, and which metrics does it track? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

Rebellion at DataRobot over insider stock sales

What happens when executives are allowed to secretly sell stock at a company that is doing poorly? And what can founder learn from this incident? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Scoop #18: Big Tech Joins the Tech Cooldown

The industry-wide cooldown has arrived at Google, Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft and VMWare. So, what is the mood like inside some of these companies? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Platform and Program Split at Uber: A Milestone Special

The change that shaped the engineering culture for years to come, and my take on Platform teams | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Scoop #16: Why doesn’t AWS add spending limits?

Also: similarities between the market crashes of 2022 and 2001, and worrying layoff trends. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Layoffs at Klarna

The FinTech company valued at $45B laid off 10% of its staff. How did it happen, and what can other companies learn from this execution? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

The Scoop #11: The Tech Boom is Over

Layoffs, rescinded offers, hiring freezes, hiring slowdowns and a realistic look at the market. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 1 year ago

Inside The Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast

What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

What TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn from Them

A deep dive with five Technical Program Managers (TPM) on what the role is, how it evolved, and how engineers and managers can benefit from working with TPMs. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

Designing a Payment System

A full chapter from the newly released book System Design Interview: Volume 2. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

Migrations Done Well: Part 1

A guide for executing migrations well, at both small and large scales. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

War in Ukraine – and Its Impact on the Tech Industry

What impact will the war have on the European tech scene, and on international companies? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

The Platform and Program Split at Uber

The change that shaped the engineering culture for years to come, and my take on Platform teams | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

More Follow-Up on the Tech Hiring Market

Off-cycle compensation increases, a data engineer shortage and low-cost regions becoming too expensive. | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 years ago