GitHub has rolled out major improvements to its search backend — rewritten in Rust with Zing indices and near-instant streaming search across massive repos. This upgrade dramatically improves cross-repo discovery, regex support, and monorepo developer experience. Read more: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/ What is the future of platform engineering? Focus on the ‘Why’...
What Went Wrong with the AWS Outage
The massive outage in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region was traced to a race condition in the DNS automation of the DynamoDB service. An empty DNS record and automation failures propagated across multiple AWS services, disrupting dozens of major websites and apps. Read more: Network World article Engineering Leaders on...
What I’ve Learned from Talking to Top Engineering Leaders in 2025
Engineering execs share insights on AI adoption, scaling distributed teams, and the tradeoffs of speed vs stability. If you want to read more, click here. What Engineering Managers Need to Know for 2025 Shifting expectations for managers: agentic systems, memory-aware AI tools, and new skills for team leadership.If you want...
GPT-5 for Developers —
OpenAI’s newest API models (gpt-5, mini, nano) focus on stronger coding and agentic tool-use with clear migration notes.Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers/OpenAI Realtime API (gpt-realtime) GA launch adds better speech-to-speech, SIP calling, image inputs, and remote MCP servers for production voice agents.Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime/OpenAI LLM Evaluation at Booking.com A practical playbook: strong-model...
Key take‑aways from Andrej Karpathy’s keynote “Software Is Changing (Again)”
Three paradigms of software Software 1.0 – traditional hand‑written code.Software 2.0 – neural‑network “weights as code”, produced by training on data.Software 3.0 – large‑language‑model computers that you “program” with English prompts; the prompt is now the source code. Take a look at the video here Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering...
Nibbles 50
For our 50th edition we wanted to go back and shortlist five articles that stand the test of time, in other words classical. In other words if one has to read only 5 articles of the 200 odd curation, we are confident that these 5 will stand the test of...
How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
This Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter article, featuring insights from Addy Osmani, explores the evolving impact of AI-assisted coding on software engineering. It highlights the transformative potential of AI tools while addressing the nuanced realities behind their usage. Key Points: AI Adoption and Tooling Trends:Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, AI...
Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
The article explores emerging patterns in building Generative AI products as they transition from prototypes to production. It identifies key challenges like hallucination, unbounded data access, and non-determinism. Patterns include Direct Prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Hybrid Retriever, Query Rewriting, Guardrails, and Fine Tuning, each addressing specific issues in GenAI...
How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
The article highlights how AI coding tools (like GitHub Copilot) will automate much of the “grunt work” of programming, freeing engineers to focus on higher-level tasks such as design, architecture, and complex problem-solving. Junior developers may write less boilerplate code, but must learn to collaborate effectively with AI and critically...
The Seven Shipping Principles — OpenTurf’s Approach to Software Delivery
At OpenTurf, we believe that shipping fast and shipping right are not just goals but guiding principles for everything we do. The seven principles discussed here form the foundation of how we operate as a Virtual Technology Organization (VTO), enabling our teams to collaborate seamlessly and deliver exceptional software solutions for our customers....