Gergely Orosz

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

had a great time chatting with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com & @hejelin.bsky.social, looking back at the last couple years!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Good catch! Didn't want to trigger any spam filters by tagging :)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Ever wondered how Bluesky was built?

With @hejelin.bsky.social , we spent the last couple of weeks talking with @pfrazee.com, @dholms.xyz (two "founding" engineers) to get a sense of how this platform went from zero to where it is today.

Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

Ok, the cat is out the bag. Here's "the dream:"

And the full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Love the Bluesky dev team.

About to publish a deepdive on how Bluesky was built. As we talked with @pfrazee.com and @dholms.xyz, Daniel shared a story about a weird snake dream. We decided to include it in the draft. I expected he'll ask to remove it. But no:

So, soon, the "snake dream" is coming!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

When talking with efficient engineering teams (ones building stuff quickly or at large scale) I don't really hear much mentioned about working with large teams (most don't do it). I do hear the concept of "DRI" (directly responsible individual) almost always come up though.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 12:09 UTC

This is what "open sourcing our social network" looks like.

The below is the Bluesky protocol repository. You can see all source code changes, CI/CD runs.

It's refreshing to see there are now "proper" open source social networks like this!

See it here: github.com/bluesky-soci...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

Agree! It's coming back in style. Bluesky uses it heavily!!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

I meant Google+ of course, not Google Hangouts. I find the speed of shipping not just impressive but terrifying from a large tech company. If these massive beasts can move so fast: startups have more to fear.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Yes and no. Show me a massive tech company that shipped a brand new product that quickly (6 months from idea to ship) that remained sticky with a crowd. Google Hangouts took years to build! (Of course they had a backwind: but execution is the problem large companies have)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

Coming up close to what was on X for me. YMMV as always! (For me, tons of people on Tech Twitter left for either Mastodon, or Bluesky, or Threas or several)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

Until the deepdive on Bluesky is out, enjoy the one on Threads!

With Threads, it IS very impressive how Meta moved *faster* than a startup would have. Big Tech getting really nimble!

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/building-t...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 13:49 UTC

Going from zero to something, with a very small team, and while building a novel architecture (decentralized social network!) is a completely different beast.

We've been talking with the Bluesky team to get details. A deepdive coming soon enough on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 13:47 UTC

I wrote about how Meta shipped Threads in ~6 months, reaching 100M users on the first week. It was impressive. But there's a lot of backwind there of course (Instagram!) What I find just as impressive: Bluesky. ~10 engineers. 5 million users in about a year from launch, 2 years from devs start.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 13:10 UTC

Indeed...!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Heard Postgres referred as the "Swiss Army Knife for databases" and... ... yeah, that sounds accurate! (I am not sure who made it first, but a fitting observation!)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

It's also a disadvantage, of course, from the financial side of things. For-profit companies add ads into their social media products as soon as they can. They generate $$$ from this, and use that to further expand in ways not-for-profit companies simply cannot.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

I'm in the last phase of writing up research we did with @hejelin.bsky.social on Bluesky.

One thing I am only realizing now:

Bluesky is one of the very few social media companies that is NOT a for-profit (Mastodon perhaps the other?)

This is a massive, massive difference - and advantage.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

I post on X and (sometimes) Threads. If there was an app that allowed cross-posting easily, I would. Manually cross-posting is tedious. Checking replies as well! I keep posting on X the most because it's the only site with DMs. Lots of my posts end up as DM conversations.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Many of you probably know, but pretty much all code related to Bluesky is in the open. As in, the total open, here: github.com/bluesky-social

(mobile, web, protocol etc!)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

Got to talk with @pfrazee.com and @dholms.xyz about how Bluesky is built and... WOW.

I didn't realize how small the team is; the practical engineering choices made; and how interesting the protocol and choices around it are.

More details coming soon!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:20 UTC

It's that day of the year: Cyber Monday. And The Pragmatic Engineer is 20% off for the first year.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:13 UTC

Yeah - but 1. When speakers were reached out, DHH and Uncle Bob were not yet listed AFAIK 2. Even DHH bowed out over this!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 16, 2023 at 15:21 UTC

What are some good / fun / interesting gift ideas for someone working in tech? Suggestions welcome!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 15, 2023 at 03:27 UTC

If you know what this is: you know how it all started.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 23:24 UTC

Imagine a world where the Linux dev community and Linus Torvalds did not create Git in 2005 (or later). What would the "mainstream" version control system be today? CVS? SVN? TFS? Perforce? Mercurial? Just as interesting: why did Git become the de facto version control tool?

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 21:04 UTC

Behind The Software Engineer’s Guidebook there are so many people who directly - and, often indirectly, perhaps not even knowing! - helped in what the book would become. Lots of people I learned from/with. And more than 20 early readers, plus my editor. The acknowledgements page:

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 16:06 UTC

OpenAI is fascinating, and especially the ChatGPT group within the company. It feels like they execute faster than what should be possible. But how do they do it?

I talked w Evan Morikawa, who has been there from day one & shared some great stuff:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-ope...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 13, 2023 at 22:15 UTC

An interesting generational and industry divide: Those who previously worked with SDETs in the past (or were one) and those who don't know what this term means.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 11, 2023 at 17:56 UTC

Spent the past few weeks talking with engineering at OpenAI to figure how it is that they ship SO fast with ChatGPT that it’s hard to just keep up! When they have more than 100M monthly users.

Fascinating details not revealed before coming next week in newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 10, 2023 at 23:09 UTC

A small downside of self-publishing on Amazon as an author: you cannot order advance copies! I was the very first person to place a bulk order for The Software Engineer’s Guidebook on Saturday and after multiple delays, I now have my copies: So good to see the final book:

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 08, 2023 at 16:51 UTC

Some of the best things happened after turning a setback into motivation. Four years ago a publisher I really, really hoped I could work with rejected the pitch for The Software Engineer's Guidebook. They were nice and professional, but it stung. I decided to just work harder and more on the book!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 07, 2023 at 23:08 UTC

WOW. The Software Engineer’s Guidebook is the 15th most sold book on Amazon Australia, 18th in Germany, 75th in the UK. It was the 38th most sold in the US… before Amazon stopped taking orders. Amazon prints this book via KDP and probably got too many orders. Thank you for the trust!!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 07, 2023 at 09:27 UTC

Four years in the making and finally released today: The Software Engineer's Guidebook is out!! Get it on Amazon or via engguidebook.com

@whereistanya.bsky.social described it like this: "This book is well named: it really does feel like the missing guidebook for the whole industry."

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Nov 01, 2023 at 06:09 UTC

In about a week, The Software Engineer's Guidebook will (finally!) be out in print! If you'd like to get an email when it's ready to order, add your email here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Oct 30, 2023 at 22:22 UTC

AWS, Azure and GCP walk into the bar after they all resolved a regional outage. The bartender asks what happened. Azure: "Give me a few hours; the public PIR will have this." GCP: "The public preliminary postmortem will have details." AWS: "Become a customer and ask your TAM!"

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Oct 29, 2023 at 09:30 UTC

The full details from Cloudflare: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

Cloudflare is basically positioning itself as Okta’s missing security team. Last week, they gave Okta advice on what basic security practices to follow. This week, they built the HAR filter Okta should have had in-place.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com [ View ] Oct 29, 2023 at 09:29 UTC

After Okta was breached for 3 weeks - attackers accessing HAR files w sensitive session info - Okta’s response: “Okta recommends sanitizing all credentials and cookies/session tokens within a HAR file before sharing it.” Cloudflare just built & released such a tool. Savage:

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