The Pragmatic Engineer

Episodes

• Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman

  Mar 26, 2025

  Figma Slides was born out of a hackathon idea, quickly evolving into a widely used product within just one and a half years.

• How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman

  Mar 19, 2025

  Linux is the most widely used operating system globally, operating in countless devices, from Android phones to embedded systems.

• Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam

  Mar 12, 2025

  Vibe coding promotes quick prototyping by focusing on desired outcomes rather than perfect execution.

• Design-first software engineering: Craft – with Balint Orosz

  Mar 5, 2025

  Being a UX-focused engineer often means navigating challenges between design and traditional engineering centers.

• The man behind the Big Tech comics – with Manu Cornet

  Feb 26, 2025

  Manu Cornet's org chart comic remains a humorous critique of structural inefficiencies within big tech companies.

• Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE)

  Feb 19, 2025

  The S.A.C.E. framework—Satisfaction, Activity, Communication/Collaboration, and Efficiency/Flow—provides a comprehensive understanding of developer productivity.

• Live streaming at world-record scale with Ashutosh Agrawal

  Feb 12, 2025

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• AI Engineering with Chip Huyen

  Feb 5, 2025

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• Building a best-selling game with a tiny team – with Jonas Tyroller

  Jan 29, 2025

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• Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors

  Jan 22, 2025

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• “The Coding Machine” at Meta with Michael Novati

  Jan 15, 2025

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• Confessions of a Big Tech recruiter

  Jan 8, 2025

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• Shipping projects at Big Tech with Sean Goedecke

  Dec 18, 2024

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• Notion: going native on iOS and Android

  Dec 11, 2024

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• Software architecture with Grady Booch

  Dec 4, 2024

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• Linear: move fast with little process (with first engineering manager Sabin Roman)

  Nov 20, 2024

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• Promotions and tooling at Google (with Irina Stanescu, Ex-Google)

  Nov 6, 2024

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• Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote)

  Oct 23, 2024

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• Efficient scaleups in 2024 vs 2021: Sourcegraph (with CEO & Co-founder Quinn Slack)

  Oct 9, 2024

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• AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (co-creator of Django)

  Sep 25, 2024

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