PragmaticEngineer.com is the blog of Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and engineering manager known for clear, research-driven writing about the software industry. He publishes deep-dive essays on software engineering, architecture, scaling systems, engineering management, Big Tech practices, incident analysis, product delivery, and developer careers. Gergely combines experience from companies like Uber and Microsoft with interviews, data, and real examples from engineering teams around the world. His work is widely read because it explains how high-performing tech organizations actually operate, and what individual developers can learn from them. The blog is complemented by a popular weekly newsletter and books focused on practical engineering leadership.
35 articles from this blog
Analyzes OpenAI's claim that Codex helped Asana migrate from Enzyme to React Testing Library in 2 weeks, comparing testing frameworks and questioning feasibility.
A podcast host explains why he ignores AI-generated podcast pitches from PR/marketing, advising tech founders to focus on building great products instead.
Meta's engineering talent exodus: layoffs, reassignments, and counteroffers analyzed in Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.
Grok CLI uploads local files and git history to xAI cloud by default, raising privacy concerns.
Analysis of Bending Spoons' acquisition strategy, focusing on Airtable deal and Evernote's engineering overhaul.
Gergely explains why he quit publishing video on Spotify for The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast due to reliability issues, and reflects on tech priorities.
Analysis of rising code review loads due to AI-generated code and the surge of AI tools to manage it.
Analysis of Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust for memory safety, using AI tools like Fable, and lessons for software engineering.
Analysis of Cursor's AI coding usage data, revealing power users generate 10x more code and input tokens dominate costs.
Explores the trend of smart model routing to reduce AI costs by automatically selecting the best LLM for each task.
A writer describes how Pollen founders tried to erase a critical article via a bogus copyright claim, with Google removing it from search results.
Analysis of Coinbase's 10-hour outage due to single-AZ dependency and lack of automated failover, highlighting reliability failures in cloud architecture.
Analysis of a trend where engineering departments are cutting back on AI spending due to unclear productivity returns.
Google launches Antigravity 2.0, a redesigned AI IDE that removes traditional IDE features for a conversational agent interface.
Analysis of rising demand for Forward Deployed Engineers at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with simplified hiring and outsourced deployment.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes Australian fund UniSuper's infrastructure, causing two-week outage; third-party backup prevents total data loss.
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Code capacity issues and their impact on developer relations.
TechPays, a European tech salary site, is acquired by Levels.fyi to improve pay transparency for software engineers.
Analysis of GitHub's recent reliability issues including data integrity bugs and outages, questioning why other vendors aren't similarly affected.
Analysis of rising token costs in AI coding tools at tech companies, with insights from engineers on budget impacts and potential solutions.
