OCT 16, 2026

The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.

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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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The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but...

CareerIndustry

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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this...

CareerIndustry

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