Gergely Orosz

What’s changed in “the unwritten rules” of engineering management since the 2010s, why are hands-on managers “back”, and what has it done to the engineer-to-CTO career path? Will Larson is one of the best people I know to answer these questions: • YouTube: youtu.be/Prl858_AovM (cont'd)

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OK I want to give a shoutout to Uptime Labs (www.uptimelabs.io) - mentioned by Sam Newman on the podcast. They do incident response training via simulations, so eng teams are better prepared when an outage happens. SO COOL! London-based (Zero affiliation: just love to see useful tools!)

A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate and think of devs as “brains in jars.” And now we have AI suddenly enter the room…

What do developer tools look like inside Uber today? They are very different from what you would see at most places. We get a rare tour with one of Uber's longest-tenured engineers, Uday Kiran Medisetty - who was at Uber already when I joined in 2016! • YouTube: youtu.be/MDUYSMJmi8A (cont'd)

• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/73oD... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Brought to you by: • turbopuffer – The tpuf team is rebuilding their storage architecture from first principles to make search faster, cheaper, and more reliable at scale. Follow along at turbopuffer.com/v3

When I hear about “AI SRE” startups (products hoping to automate oncall so no dev gets woken up at 2am): Putting in more work so stuff works so you don’t get paged at 2am is what we have today. Should we get more AI and less feedback systems reliability could get a lot worse

When does it still make sense to use microservices; and what are mental models to keep in mind when building resilient distributed systems? With Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices, and the fresh release Building Resilient Distributed Systems: YouTube: youtu.be/a0sZV0qIbI0 (cont'd)

• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0XQn... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Brought to you by: • turbopuffer– a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. turbopuffer.com/pragmatic (cont'd)

Baffling how bad startup tech blogs are getting: more of them are AI nonsense. I know because every now and then a marketer emails me, hoping to get coverage. More of then not it's overly verbose, impossible to follow... AI slop. Feels like no one wants to put in the work

The last time building software sped up ~10x (early 2000s, the agile movement), a massive interest in automated testing followed almost immediately (unit tests, TDD, XP etc) Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following

Peter Mattis has quite the history in shipping large-scale, production sw: he created GIMP, built Gmail’s original backend, shipped Google’s Colossus distributed backend stroage system, and is the cofounder and CTO at Cockroach Labs, the makers of CockroachDB. A convo on distributed DBs: (cont'd)

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"Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in. Most computers in the future must be put to work at least in part w/o programmers. Not surprisingly, programmers will instinctively resist methods described in this book." - 1982, James Martin (cont'd)

How was Codex built, why is it open source, how is it used inside of OpenAI, and how has it changed software development within the company? Tibo Sottiaux was on the team that started Codex & now heads it up: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLST... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

And Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4TOP... Brought to you by: • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. turbopuffer.com/pragmatic (cont'd)

I have to admit, I have zero excitement about this latest flurry of new model releases I am sure they are all better, but the existing ones were more than good enough, and I'm learning how much to trust those existing ones... and already they do more than I can utilize them (for writing code)