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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack?
AI tools being disruptive is not a surprise. TypeScript being the most used language is a big surprise.
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How Tinder’s API Gateway Handles A Billion Swipes Per Day
Other than Tinder’s custom API gateway implementation, a good primer on how gateways work.
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Your Career Needs a Vision, Not More Goals
Deep, deep thoughts about vision, goals, and how people commonly confuse them. What beauty of an article! The central concept is similar to Cal Newport’s lifestyle-centric planning, but it’s nice to revisit it in the context of a software engineer.
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The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025
A detailed look at the grim reality of tech job market and a stark reminder about preparing oneself for investing heavily in interview prep. The world is not fair, so you gotta play the game!
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The 10x “overemployed” engineer
Sensational!
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EP171: The Generative AI Tech Stack
The GenAI tech stack diagram is a great introduction to the tooling around writing GenAI-powered software.
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The Heart of Software Engineering Still Beats - Annie Vella
Annie provides a good mental model to work with AI coding assistants without losing the soul of software engineering.
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The Silent Killer Of Motivation And What To Do About It
A reminder about the hazards of becoming a bottleneck in your org/work/life because you are too good at something. I was a “human search engine” for applied artificial intelligence back in 2017 and that led me to nowhere.
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How Spotify Uses GenAI and ML to Annotate a Hundred Million Tracks
An interesting take on a balanced approach between the two extremes of 100% manual and 100% automated work. Also an interesting case study in breaking the silos by creating a central team with shared processes.