The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely Orosz

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

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The Pragmatic Engineer

Episodes (64)

Wed Jun 3rd Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
May 27th Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
May 20th Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

The Pragmatic Engineer

Jun 3, 2026
3 hours
164 MB

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue • Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers — Kelsey Hightower went from a self-taught technician installing DSL modems to becoming one of Google’s elite Distinguished Engineers, whom the CEO of Microsoft personally tried to recruit. Hightower’s career achievements are rooted in hard work and self-directed learning, and today he’s one of the most...

The Pragmatic Engineer

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Gergely Orosz

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