The Pragmatic Engineer

“The Pragmatic Engineer” delves into the intricacies of architecting enterprise-level solutions with a focus on knowledge base infrastructure, generative AI, and data augmentation for machine learning. It explores the challenges of moving beyond static data libraries to interact with living data, emphasizing the importance of understanding over mere indexing. The document discusses the implementation of secure semantic memory layers, multi-tenant pipelines, and the utilization of advanced technologies like Spark, EMR, and Airflow to build fault-tolerant and responsive systems. Additionally, it addresses the significance of context, precision in search mechanisms, and the role of vector embeddings in enhancing semantic understanding.

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The Pulse: OpenAI software engineer accused of spying

Also: insider details on how and why Anthropic moved off Git, a new trend of AI-assisted coding rounds inside of Big Tech, and more

Uber’s AI infra, from the inside

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Uber Distinguished Engineer Uday Kiran Medisetty shares how Uber builds internal developer tools, integrates AI agents into engineering workflows, and measures their impact on productivity.

Building resilient AI-powered software, and planning for when things go wrong

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How to handle uncertainty with AI vendors and disaster recovery (DR) approaches to consider. An excerpt from the book Building Resilient Distributed Systems by Sam Newman

The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies

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Also: do us engineers truly enjoy ‘hard problems’, or do we really just want to solve those which attract promotions, new open models launch in the EU and US, and more

Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

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Sam Newman joins me to discuss when to use microservices, how to build resilient distributed systems, and how AI is changing software development.

The state of the tech industry in 2026

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A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York

The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

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Also: OpenAI’s platform play that has similarities to AWS, more data on companies moving to open models, and more

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrificing quality.

Why has Shopify dropped React Native?

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It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the reason, unsurprisingly, is AI

The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

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37signals – the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR) – moves over to agents generating nearly all its code. Also: Amazon and Meta struggle to hire engineers, code reviews will probably also go away and more...

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

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Maggie Appleton on what engineers can learn from designers, working with AI agents, and why human judgment still matters.

How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows

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Deepdive into the Windows team’s efforts to make the OS “AI agent-friendly” and win back developers by going all-in on Linux on Windows, local models, GPUs, & more