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Scaling Slack and GitHub: Insights from Engineer Maude Lemaire
Maude Lemaire, a principal engineer with experience at Slack and GitHub, discussed the challenges of scaling large software products. She shared insights on how Slack managed its growing user base and implemented strate…
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Engineering management rules revised, middle management path uncertain
Will Larson, CTO of Imprint and author of several books on engineering leadership, discussed the evolving landscape of engineering management. He noted a shift away from practices common in the low-interest-rate era tow…
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Legora scales legal AI agent testing with 2,000 parallel Modal Sandboxes
Legora, a legal AI agent company, has developed a new evaluation system using Modal Sandboxes to test its autonomous agents. This system allows for thousands of parallel, isolated environments, each replicating Legora's…
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Uber details internal AI infrastructure and custom developer tools
Uber has developed a sophisticated internal AI infrastructure to support its engineering teams, moving beyond traditional developer tools. The company has a history of building custom solutions due to its massive scale,…
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Microservices expert Sam Newman discusses resilient systems and AI's impact
Sam Newman, author of "Building Microservices," discussed his views on microservices as an architecture of last resort in a recent episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. He shared insights into common adoption pitfa…
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Turbopuffer shifts from vector-first to generalized storage architecture
Turbopuffer is undergoing a significant architectural shift, moving away from its original vector-first design to a more generalized storage system. Initially launched as a serverless vector database optimized for vecto…
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol; Google's Gemini 4 Argon remains gated
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, pricing it at $2/$10 and making it available for use. Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, but access to this model is currently restricted. The AI briefing also noted Perplexity's Photon mo…
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Perplexity releases contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines
Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a new contextual embedding model designed for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. This model differs from traditional appro…
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Perplexity unveils new contextual embedding model, setting SOTA on benchmarks
Perplexity has introduced a new contextual embedding model, pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, which sets a new state-of-the-art on the ConTEB and context-bench benchmarks. This model encodes each document chunk with the…
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Cockroach Labs CTO Peter Mattis on AI-boosted productivity and database tech
Peter Mattis, co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs, discusses how AI has significantly boosted his productivity and code quality, even after a career focused on management. He shares insights from his journey, including…
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OpenAI's Codex Engineer Discusses Rust CLI, Google's Pre-ChatGPT Project
Tibo Sottiaux, a key engineer behind OpenAI's Codex and current head of its Core Products & Platform, discussed the development and evolution of the AI coding assistant. He highlighted the decision to build the Codex CL…
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The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter Marks Five Years of Growth
The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter is celebrating its five-year anniversary, having grown from a niche publication about software engineering to a widely-read platform with over 1.1 million readers and tens of thousands …
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Casey Muratori champions software performance amid industry neglect
Casey Muratori, a programmer and game developer known for Handmade Hero and his Substack 'Computer, Enhance.', argues that software performance is critically important but widely ignored by the industry. In a podcast di…
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Turbopuffer CEO champions 'napkin math' for AI cost efficiency
Simon Eskildsen, co-founder of turbopuffer, advocates for "napkin math" – using quick calculations to understand system performance and cost. He shared his insights at the AI Engineer's World Fair, emphasizing the value…
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Software Engineering Pioneer Kent Beck Re-examines AI's Impact
Kent Beck, a pivotal figure in software engineering known for creating Extreme Programming and co-authoring the Agile Manifesto, is re-evaluating his foundational ideas in the context of artificial intelligence. In a re…
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CI/CD Expert Robert Erez Advocates Roll Forward and Feature Flags
Robert Erez, a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, discussed CI/CD and software delivery practices on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. Key insights included prioritizing "roll forward" over rollbacks for stateful syste…
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AI infrastructure firms Exa, Modal, Turbopuffer achieve major funding milestones
Several AI infrastructure companies have achieved significant funding milestones, with Turbopuffer reaching $100M ARR and profitability, Exa securing $250M in a Series C round valuing it at $2.2B, and Modal raising $355…
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Programming legend Anders Hejlsberg on language design and AI
Anders Hejlsberg, a renowned programming language designer, discussed his career and insights on language development in a recent interview. He highlighted the importance of integrated developer tools, citing the succes…
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Latent Space Podcast Explores RAG, Agents, and Infinite Context
The Latent Space podcast featured two episodes discussing advancements in AI. The first, "Retrieval After RAG," explored hybrid search, agents, and database design with Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer. The second e…