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Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally?

The Pragmatic Engineer

There’s plenty of news and anecdotal evidence suggesting the jobs market for software engineers is cooling. But what about “hard” data on trends in software engineer hiring? The vast majority of posts are related to software engineering. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

13 June 2023: AWS. The largest AWS region (us-east-1) degraded heavily for 3 hours, impacting 104 AWS services. We did a deepdive into this incident earlier in AWS’s us-east-1 outage. We’ll also learn how this article contributed to AWS publishing its first public postmortem in two years!

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Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Jia Zhan, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest Sachin Holla, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Summary Pinterest is a visual search engine and powers over 550 million monthly active users globally. Pinterests infrastructure runs on AWS and leverages Amazon EC2 instances for its compute fleet.

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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

The Pragmatic Engineer

I wanted to find the truth, so I tracked down software engineers at the company. I can confirm this, having talked with both current and former software engineers at Coinbase who shared details of what happened. The company racked up huge bills for the likes of AWS, Snowflake, and also Datadog.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Image source: The Atlas story Today, it is compute that’s much cheaper than software engineers’ time. In the US, a software engineer working at a Big Tech company is compensated more than 100 times the cost of a high-end laptop, annually.    So why the sudden rise in use of remote environments?

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Big Tech job-switching stats

The Pragmatic Engineer

I have collaborated with a tech recruiter - they’ve asked to be anonymous - who’s been running some very interesting queries on LinkedIn for software engineers. Although AWS and Salesforce also hired during this period, both have announced cuts which include software engineers.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

This article was originally published a week ago, on 3 October 2024, in The Pragmatic Engineer. To get timely analysis on software engineering industry in your inbox, subscribe. We have seen other similar stories play out recently: In 2021, Elastisearch faced a similar “freerider” challenge from AWS.