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The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack · Oct 07, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

Sam Newman joins me to discuss when to use microservices, how to build resilient distributed systems, and how AI is changing software development.

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The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack · Oct 06, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

The state of the tech industry in 2026

A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York

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The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack · Oct 01, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

Also: OpenAI’s platform play that has similarities to AWS, more data on companies moving to open models, and more

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The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack · Sep 30, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrificing quality.

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The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack · Sep 29, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Why has Shopify dropped React Native?

It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the reason, unsurprisingly, is AI

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