Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • The Software Engineer’s Guidebook : Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — Not many people know that I have a brother: Balint Orosz . Balint is also in tech, but in many ways, is the opposite of me. While I prefer working on backend and business logic, he always thrived in designing and building UIs. While I opted to work at mor...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by a senior software engineer and cartoonist, Manu Cornet. Manu spent over a decade at Google , doing both backend and frontend development. He also spent a year and a half at Twitter before Elon Musk purchased it and rebranded it to X . B...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of JioCinema (and currently Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind.) We take a deep dive into vide...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of JioCinema (and currently Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind.) We take a deep dive into vide...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • Swarmia — The engineering intelligence platform for modern software organizations. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Chip Huyen, a computer scientist, author of the freshly published O’Reilly book AI Engineering , and an expert in applied machine learning. Chip has worked as a researcher at Netflix, was a core developer at NV...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Jonas Tyroller, one of the developers behind Thronefall , a minimalist indie strategy game that blends tower defense and kingdom-building, now available on Steam. Jonas takes us through the journey of creating Thronefall from s...
Jan 29, 2025•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • Sonar — Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code. • Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today's episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I'm joined by Charity Majors, a well-known observability expert – as well as someone with strong and grounded opinions. Charity is the co-author of "Observability Engineering" and brings extensive experience as an operations and database engineer and an engineering manager. She is the cofounder an...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Michael Novati, Co-founder and CTO of Formation. Before launching Formation, Michael spent eight years at Meta, where he was recognized as the top code committer company-wide for several years. The “Coding Machine” archetype was modeled after Michael at the company. In our conversation, we tal...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partners • DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers. • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I catch up with one of the best tech recruiters I’ve had the opportunity to work with: Blake Stockman, a former colleague of mine from Uber. Blake built a strong reputation in the recruiting world, working at tech giants like Google, Meta, and Uber. He also spent time with Y Com...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partner DX → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. Sean is widely known for his viral blog post, “How I ship projects at big tech companies.” In our conversation, he shares how to successfully deliver projects in large tech companies. Drawing from his experiences at GitHub and Zendesk, Sean reflects on key lessons learned, and we ...
Dec 18, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supported by Our Partner DX → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers — In today’s exciting episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by two members of the Notion mobile apps team, Austin Louden and Karn Saheb. Austin and Karn joined Notion in 2019 when Notion was revamping its mobile apps. Notion is a versatile productivity and collaboration platform that combines note-taking, task management, and knowledge organization into a single workspace. It is av...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by: • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images. • Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control. — Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer ! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Grady Booch, a true legend in software development. Grady is the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM , where he leads groundbreaking research in embodied cognition. He’s the mind behind several object-orien...
Dec 04, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by: • Launch Darkly — a platform for high-velocity engineering teams to release, monitor, and optimize great software. • Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by fellow Uber alum, Sabin Roman, now the first Engineering Manager at Linear . Linear, known for its powerful project and issue-tracking system, streamlines workflows throughout th...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by: • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Sonar — Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Irina Stanescu, a seasoned engineer with over 14 years in software engineering and engineering leadership roles at tech companies like Google and Uber. Now an engineering leadership coach, Irina helps tech professionals build impactful careers, teaches a course on influence, and shares insights thro...
Nov 06, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by: • The Enterprise Ready Conference on October 30th — For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS. • DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers. • ByteByteGo — Ace your next system design interview. — You may not be familiar with Bending Spoons, but I guarantee you’ve encountered some of their well-known products, like Evernote and Meetup. In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, we sit down with three key figures from the Italy-based start...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by: • Paragon : Build native, customer-facing SaaS integrations 7x faster. • WorkOS : For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer , I’m joined by Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a leading code search and intelligence platform. Quinn holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford and is deeply passionate about coding: to the point that he still codes every day! He also serves on the board of Hack Club, a national nonp...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast is out. Expect similar episodes every other Wednesday. You can add the podcast in your favorite podcast player, and have future episodes downloaded automatically. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube . Brought to you by: • Codeium : Join the 700K+ developers using the IT-approved AI-powered code assistant. • TLDR : Keep up with tech in 5 minutes — On the first episode of the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I am joined by Simon Willison. S...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast , hosted by Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. In each episode, we dive deep into the world of software engineering, offering practical insights on scaling teams, engineering leadership, and navigating the evolving tech landscape. With industry veterans and successful engineers as guests, this podcast is perfect for anyone looking to level up their engineering career with real-world advice. Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube...
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