The Pragmatic EngineerDec 5, 20251 min read

Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies

During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that...

Cloud

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The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?

CareerIndustry

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The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system

Git had too many performance problems at 30,000 PRs per day, so Anthropic built its own. I talked with the team, including asking why they didn’t open source...

CareerIndustry

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The19d ago

The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies

Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more...

CareerIndustry

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