The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
Hosted by Gergely Orosz · Gergely Orosz
4.9from 98 ratings
- 78
- Episodes
- 76
- Transcribed
- 98
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Gergely Orosz
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
76 of 78 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Inside a recent episode
Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Beyond the safety of the compiler and the runtime and all that stuff, there's a lot more questions to answer, I think, before the whole world is ready to say the spec is the source of truth of what our system is supposed to do. Production is always going to be the real truth, though, just to be clear. But I think it's a good question to just ask yourself, however you're building, however you're using agents, of where is the truth of your system right now? Is it more in the code? Do you have a spec? Is it scattered between the minds of people? Which goes back to the collaboration, because again, a lot of the reality of a lot of startups are is a few people hold these things in their head, right, which is OK in the beginning. […]
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- Sam Newman
- Peter Mattis
- Maggie Appleton
- Matt Pocock
- Tibo Sottiaux
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 5,280,019
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 98 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Gergely Orosz host the show. Published by Gergely Orosz.
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