all things engineering

As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of LVMH’s company history and business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of TSMC’s history and business strategy.

Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif

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My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominen

When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap

Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two after firming up the communication plan with my new team there.) The most important things I learned at Carta were:

Stock options, RSUs, taxes — read the latest edition: www.holloway.com/ec - jlevy/og-equity-compensation

We might be seeing the end of remote interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial weeks and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?

Interview processes are changing in a tech market that’s both cooling AND heating up at the same time. A deepdive with Hello Interview founders, Evan King and Stefan Mai

Designers spend their days dreaming up better products and better worlds, and you can use their thinking to re-envision your own life, says design professor Bill Burnett. He shares five tips to try, whether you’re at the start of your career or contemplating your next act. Executive director of Stanford’s design program at the d.School, Bill Burnett uses design thinking, a career’s worth of starting companies and coaching students, and a childhood spent drawing cars and airplanes under his Grandmother’s sewing machine to inform his work on how to design your life. In five eyebrow-raising findings, Burnett offers simple but life-changing advice on designing the life you want, whether you are contemplating college or retirement. After years of drawing cars and airplanes under his Grandmother’s sewing machine, Bill Burnett went to college where he discovered that there were people in the world who did this kind of thing every day (without the sewing machine), and they were called designers. Thirty years, five companies, and a couple thousand students later, Burnett is still drawing and building things, teaching others how to do the same, and quietly enjoying the fact that no one has discovered that he is having too much fun. As Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford, he runs undergraduate and graduate programs in design, both interdepartmental programs between the mechanical engineering and art departments. Burnett worked on design of the award-winning Apple PowerBooks and the original Hasbro Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.

Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!

Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade

Episode 494: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talks with ex-CEO & co-founder of Twitch, Emmett Shear ( https://twitter.com/eshear ), about the potential o…

Mark Zuckerberg's interview on Meta's company strategy, Facebook's history, and the future of VR, AR, and AI live from Chase Center.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s current business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s company history and business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Starbucks’ history and business strategy.

There are four different stories of how AWS was founded. We explore each of them, and AWS's strategy vs Google and Microsoft today.

The complete podcast interview (and transcript!) with Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger