Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies
Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks,...
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100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine
By Jun He, Yingyi Zhang, Ely Spears TL;DR We recently upgraded the Maestro engine to go beyond scalability and improved its performance by 100X! The overall overhead...
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Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, the co-founders of Oxide, are on the pod live (to tape) from the stage at OxCon. Jerod and I were invited...
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Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited...
Read moreBuilding a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix
By Prudhviraj Karumanchi, Samuel Fu, Sriram Rangarajan, Vidhya Arvind, Yun Wang, John Lu Introduction Netflix operates at a massive scale, serving hundreds of millions of users with...
Read moreDesign Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior.” — Kenneth...
Read moreFrom Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, Kate stumbled her way through an AI-augmented sprint (coffee was chugged, mistakes were made). In “Prompting...
Read moreFlight Recorder in Go 1.25
The Go Blog Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek 26 September 2025 In 2024 we introduced the world to more powerful Go...
Read moreNew Blog Post: ” A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types”
Last week I said that this week’s newsletter would be a brief history of algebraic data types. I was wrong. That history is now a 3500...
Read moreAnnouncing Changed Block Tracking API support (alpha)
We’re excited to announce the alpha support for a changed block tracking mechanism. This enhances the Kubernetes storage ecosystem by providing an efficient way for CSI...
Read moreAnchoring AI to a reference application
Service templates are a typical building block in the “golden paths” organisations build for their engineering teams, to make it easy to do the right thing....
Read moreIntent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)
There is a spectrum of opinions on how dramatically all creative professions will be changed by the coming wave of agentic AI, from the very skeptical...
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