The Pragmatic Engineer
Episodes
Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
Sam Newman discusses why microservices are an "architecture of last resort," emphasizing independent deployability and organizational autonomy over technical trends.
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis
Peter Mattis, co-founder of Cockroach Labs and creator of GIMP, discusses his career building large-scale systems like Gmail’s storage backend and Google’s Colossus file system.
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton, a design engineer at GitHub, discusses the convergence of design and engineering, arguing that product design is fundamentally problem-solving with different materials.
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock shares his unconventional path from voice coach to TypeScript educator and AI skill creator.
Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
The Pragmatic Engineer interviews Teo, who led the Codex team at OpenAI, discussing the product’s origins, its decision to be built in Rust, and the strategic choice to keep the CLI open source.
Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
Casey Moratori argues that most software runs significantly slower than necessary due to a lack of performance awareness.
From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani discusses his journey from building a custom browser as a teen to leading Chrome DevTools at Google.
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
Charity Majors discusses the polarization between AI enthusiasts and skeptics, arguing that reliability is declining as engineers ship unread code.