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Engineering Under Pressure

Engineering Under Pressure

The untold stories of software engineering. Senior engineers, toxic managers, AI, salary wars, failed promotions, production disasters, and brutal career decisions. Behind every line of code is a story nobody tells you.

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Devrim Ozcay | Founder, ProdRescue

Production Systems Engineer | Founder, ProdRescue Writing about incidents, architecture decisions, system design, and the judgment behind reliable software.

Production Systems Engineer | Founder, ProdRescue Writing about incidents, architecture decisions, system design, and the judgment behind reliable software.

The Systems & Architecture| By Devrim

Checklists and systems for real-world engineering. Prevent incidents before they happen. Java, Spring Boot, System Design

Checklists and systems for real-world engineering. Prevent incidents before they happen. Java, Spring Boot, System Design

Architecture Unfiltered

Brutal truths about software engineering.

Brutal truths about software engineering.

SYSTEM DESIGN | ProdRescue

Turn backend skills into real products. Build, launch, and scale profitable SaaS.

Turn backend skills into real products. Build, launch, and scale profitable SaaS.

Production Systems | By Devrim

From mid-level to senior/staff engineer. Interviews, real career moves

From mid-level to senior/staff engineer. Interviews, real career moves

Writers

Kathari Saijoshitha

SAI JOSHITHA KATHARI is a Sr SRE . She specializes in the high availability, reliability, observability, and resilience of large-scale distributed systems

SAI JOSHITHA KATHARI is a Sr SRE . She specializes in the high availability, reliability, observability, and resilience of large-scale distributed systems

SYSTEM DESIGN | ProdRescue

Turn backend skills into real products. Build, launch, and scale profitable SaaS.

Turn backend skills into real products. Build, launch, and scale profitable SaaS.

Yusuf Seyitoğlu

240 followers

Production engineer. I write about systems under pressure, AI, engineering trade-offs, and the people behind the code. https://froquiz.com/

Production engineer. I write about systems under pressure, AI, engineering trade-offs, and the people behind the code. https://froquiz.com/

Nidhi Pandya

14 followers

Applied AI engineer, product builder, and researcher. First-author on arXiv. Building at the intersection of research and shipped product. nidhipandya.me

Applied AI engineer, product builder, and researcher. First-author on arXiv. Building at the intersection of research and shipped product. nidhipandya.me

Saurav Kumar

1.5K followers

Data Engineer | Building clean pipelines, not just code. Writing about modern data tools, Azure, and the real-life side of engineering.

Data Engineer | Building clean pipelines, not just code. Writing about modern data tools, Azure, and the real-life side of engineering.

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