The Pragmatic Engineer

Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

The Pragmatic Engineer is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 71 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Pragmatic Engineer, a news show with 71 episodes published.

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  Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

  May 27, 20261h 20mS0

  <p>Brought to You By:</p><p>• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.</p><p>• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.</p><p>• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.</p><p>—</p><p>OpenCode is one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools around, surging in just a few months from roughly 650,000 monthly active users to nearly 8 million, and almost 1M daily active users.</p><p>In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, we meet Dax...

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  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

  May 20, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>Brought to You By:</p><p>• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.</p><p>• Sentry⁠ – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers</p><p>• ⁠Craft Conference⁠: join Gergely, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne and others at the conference dedicated to the art and science of software delivery craft.</p><p>—</p><p>Rust is one of the most admired programming languages around – and also one of the hardest to learn. What makes developers stick with it?</p><p>In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I sit down with Ali...

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  TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

  May 13, 20261h 15mS0

  <p>Brought to You By:</p><p>• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.</p><p>• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.</p><p>• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.</p><p>—</p><p>Anders Hejlsberg is a living legend and one of the most influential programming language designers of all time. He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and also TypeScript. As well as that, he spent nearly a decade at the pioneering dev tools company, B...

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

  Apr 29, 20261h 33mS0

  <p>Brought to You By:</p><p>• Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.</p><p>• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review</p><p>• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.</p><p>—</p><p>Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a minimalist, self-modifying AI coding agent, that is the foundation upon which OpenClaw (created by Peter Steinberger) is built. Meanwhile, Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, and a longtime user of Pi. The pair are also friends.</p><p>I sat down with Mario and Armin for the la...

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  Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann

  Apr 22, 20261h 25mS0

  <p>Brought to You By:</p><p>• Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.</p><p>• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review</p><p>• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.</p><p>—</p><p>Martin Kleppmann is a researcher and the author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, one of the most influential books on modern distributed systems. As of this month, the second, heavily updated edition of the book is out.</p><p>In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer, we discuss Martin’s career in tech building startups, how he ended up wr...

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