Archive - The Pragmatic Engineer

March 2025

The Pulse #128: Mishandled security vulnerability in Next.js

Cloudflare stepped up to deliver a fix for the vulnerability, following unexpected silence from the Next.js team. Also: OpenAI’s new image generation…

Mar 27 •

Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman

Figma engineers Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer share how they built Figma Slides from a hackathon project into a polished product, covering key…

Mar 26 •

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AI Engineering in the real world

What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies

Mar 25 •

What is Growth Engineering?

A deep dive into the field of growth engineering, which is often positioned between product engineering and marketing. With former head of growth…

Mar 20 •

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Alexey Komissarouk

How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a longtime Linux kernel maintainer, breaks down the inner workings of Linux development, from its unique trust model to the benefits…

Mar 19 •

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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

We’d like to share a realistic snapshot of the industry – and need your help. Those filling out the survey will receive a report before anyone else and…

Mar 18 •

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The Pulse #127: Typescript compiler rewritten in Go

Why did Microsoft choose a language developed by Google, instead of its own, C#? Also: OpenAI’s dev tools for agents looking complex, the PR/FAQ for AWS…

Mar 13 •

Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam

Gautam Korlam, former principal engineer at Uber and co-founder of Gitar, joins the podcast to discuss scaling engineering teams, the challenges of…

Mar 12 •

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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem

A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video…

Mar 11 •

The Pulse #126: Startup asks for a lot, offers little → struggles to hire

Also: Cloufflare’s self-critical, transparent postmortem, additional signs of Big Tech becoming more cutthroat, and more.

Mar 6 •

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