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Uber’s AI infra, from the inside

Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

AI Skills with Matt Pocock

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry

Tech interviews with NeetCode

CI/CD with Robert Erez

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating

Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann

DHH’s new way of writing code

Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)

Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"

How AWS S3 is built

The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide

Being a founding engineer at an AI startup

Code security for software engineers

How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler

Netflix’s Engineering Culture

From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner

Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani

Google’s engineering culture

Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher

Hypergrowth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein

Code Complete with Steve McConnell

The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker

Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho

Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge

What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh

How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar

The present, past and future of GitHub

TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck

50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie