A seasoned Google engineer drops 21 sharp principles for scaling engineering beyond just writing code. Think:clarity beats cleverness,users over egos,alignment over being “right.”The core message? Build systems humans can work with - especially under stress. Favorites: kill pointless work, treat pro.. read more  

Patreon engineers made massive bets in 2025, shipping code across all areas of the system and enabling impactful features like Autopilot's growth tools suite. Expanding Autopilot's scope, reach, and effectiveness was a challenge, especially guaranteeing recipient redemption after email delivery in a.. read more  

A seasoned dev maps the job market into three tiers:local/public companies,VC-backed/startups, andBig Tech/finance. Each step up brings more money, more competition, and a steeper climb. Category 3(Big Tech/finance): Highest salaries. Broadest interview access. Brutal prep required. Category 2(start.. read more  

New data shows only15% of code review comments catch real bugs. The rest? Nitpicks on style, naming, or formatting - stuff linters and AI were made to handle. Human reviews burn through$3.6M a yearin larger orgs and still miss the tough stuff: threading issues, system integration bugs, rare edge cas.. read more  

AWS spun up a serverless RAG-based support assistant usingAmazon BedrockandBedrock Knowledge Bases. It pulls in docs via a web crawler and S3, then stuffs embeddings intoAmazon OpenSearch Serverless. Access is role-aware, locked down withCognito. Everything spins up clean withAWS CDK... read more  

A security researcher ran a full-blown container escape on EKS usingBadPods- a tool that spins up dangerously overprivileged pods. The pod broke out of its container, poked around the host node, moved laterally, and swiped AWS IAM creds. All of it slipped past EKS’s defaultPod Security Admission (PS.. read more  

GitLab Runners now work withAmazon EKS Auto Mode. That means hands-off infra, smarter scaling, and built-in AWS security. Runners spin up onEC2 Spot Instances, so teams can cut CI/CD compute costs by as much as90%- without hacking together flaky pipelines... read more  

Kubernetes 1.34 droppedDynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)- think persistent volumes, but for GPUs and custom hardware. Vendors can now plug in drivers and schedulers for their devices, and workloads can pick exactly what they need. Coming in 1.35: a newworkload abstractionthat speaks the language of .. read more  

AWS released a full-stack CI/CD validation pipeline forAmazon EKS. It pulls in six layers of testing,Terraform,Helm,Locustload testing, and evenAWS Fault Injectionfor pushing resilience to the edge. The goal: bake policy checks, functional tests, and brutal load tests right into pre-deployment. Fewe.. read more  

Dapr droppedDurable Agents- a mashup of classic workflows and LLM-driven agents that can actually get things done and survive rough edges. They track reasoning steps, tool calls, and chat states like a champ. If things crash, no problem: Dapr Workflows and Diagrid Catalyst bring it all back... read more