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   3 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 51 min

   Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

   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…

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   27 May 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

   Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

   Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. — OpenCode is one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools around, surging in just a few months from roughly 650,000 monthly active users to nearly 8 million, and almost 1M daily active users. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, we meet Dax Raad,…

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   20 May 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

   Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

   Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry ⁠ – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers • ⁠ Craft Conference ⁠ : join Gergely, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne and others at the conference dedicated to the art and science of software delivery craft. — Rust is one of the most admired programming languages around – and also one of the hardest to learn. What makes developers stick with it? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I sit down…

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   29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

   Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a minimalist, self-modifying AI coding agent, that is the foundation upon which OpenClaw (created by Peter Steinberger) is built. Meanwhile, Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, and a longtime user of Pi. The pair are also friends. I sat down with Mario and Armin for the latest episode of the Pragmatic…

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   22 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

   Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Martin Kleppmann is a researcher and the author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications , one of the most influential books on modern distributed systems. As of this month, the second, heavily updated edition of the book is out . In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer, we discuss Martin’s career in tech building startups, how he ended up writing…

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   8 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

   DHH’s new way of writing code

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy, co-founder and CTO of 37signals (maker of Basecamp and HEY), and the author of several books including the best-seller, Remote: Office Not Required , co-written with Jason Fried . Six months ago, in an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast , David shared how he doesn’t use…

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   7 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 58 minNew

   Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

   Brought to You By: • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. • Entire – Git hosting, rebuilt for the agentic era. Every agent session, prompt and tool calls: stored in your repo. • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. — Sam Newman wrote one of the most-read books about microservices (“ Building Microservices ”), but he calls them an architecture of “last resort.” In this episode of the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, Sam…

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   30 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

   Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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   23 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

   Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

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    17 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

    AI Skills with Matt Pocock

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