Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database
Jordan Tigani helped create Google BigQuery, then got fired as Chief Product Officer on a Friday morning. He planned to hack on DuckDB to le...
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Beyond Coding
Beyond Coding is a weekly podcast that dives into the world of successful people in IT. The host Patrick Akil and his guests share their experiences and insights, ranging from practical chal...
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Why Robots Need A Different Map (Google Earth Creator & Niantic Spatial CTO)
Niantic Spatial CTO Brian McClendon on how the best engineers solve problems most give up on — from a 4D model of the world to shipping rese...
How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience
How do new staff engineers build judgment without the years of experience that used to come with the role? Mallika Rao, engineering leader i...
How Amazon Turns Real Failures Into Better AI Models
How does Amazon build its agentic AI? Michael Giannangeli, Head of Product for Amazon Nova and Agentic AI, breaks down evals, RL gyms, and m...
Wes Bos: How Developers Stand Out When AI Writes the Code
AI is changing what developers build, but code alone is no longer enough to prove what you can do. Wes Bos explains why engineers need to so...
Career Advice Every Software Engineer Needs Right Now
Answering engineer questions on AI pressure, career growth, product thinking and impact. Including the production incident I'm glad happened...
DX Expert: What The Best Engineers Solve After The Code Review Bottleneck
How do you prove AI is shipping more features? Amos Haviv leads the Developer Workflow teams at Booking.com, supporting 4000 engineers opera...
AWS Veteran: The New Software Development Life Cycle
"I need to stop using Opus. This doesn't work." That was Heitor Lessa's conclusion after a refactor cost him 200 million tokens, and it forc...
What Senior Engineers do Differently (Vercel VP)
What senior engineers do differently has less to do with output than most career ladders suggest, and Lindsey Simon, VP of Engineering at Ve...
Why the Fastest Engineers Are Falling Behind
The fastest engineers are falling behind, and Kitze was one of them. He built his reputation on raw coding speed, then realized his coding w...
AI Cloud CTO: Which Engineering Skills Are Most In-Demand Right Now
Danila Shtan runs engineering at Nebius, one of the biggest AI clouds in the world, and he told me exactly which engineers he hires on the s...
Career Expert: Why Applying to Jobs No Longer Works
120,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026, yet there are 60,000 open roles. Engineers applying are sending out 100 applications for ze...
Why the Frontrunners Say Coding Is Solved BUT Engineering is Not
Jeroen Gordijn and Jeroen Dee: two frontrunners who stopped writing code months ago and say software development is already solved. Typing c...
Why The Best Software Engineers Are Solving Code Review Bottlenecks Now
AI generates 10x more code, but your senior engineers still review it by hand and it's burning them out. Even Google admits code review is n...
Google DeepMind Lead: The New Rules of Software Engineering
Are you ready to adapt to the rapidly evolving rules of software development? In this deep dive, Logan Kilpatrick, Director and Engineer at...
Addy Osmani: Top Tier Software Engineers vs. AI Agents. The Mindset You Need
As AI agents transform software engineering, how do you leverage them without losing your coding skills or risking production disasters? In...
What World Class Software Engineers Do That You Don't
After 250 episodes of Beyond Coding, a pattern shows up again and again: the engineers who thrive aren't the ones chasing the newest tool or...
What Separates Cracked Software Engineers From Everyone Else
Reddit Reacts is back. I'm taking the most controversial takes on software engineering from Reddit and giving you my unfiltered perspective...
Microsoft Trainer: Software Engineers Need These AI Engineering Fundamentals To Survive
Most engineers are using AI coding tools without understanding what they actually are and it's costing them. Microsoft Certified Trainer Rob...
How to Master Your Skills and Get Hired Without Applying (Terraform Core Contributor)
Most engineers approach open source the wrong way. They write code, open a PR, and wonder why it never gets merged. Bruno Schaatsbergen, Ter...