The Pragmatic Engineer: Five years
Wow, has it already been five years?! The newsletter hits a big milestone this week, and it wouldn’t have been possible without subscribers. Thanks to everyone who’s read an article…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable…
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The State Initializer Pattern
When I was working on downshift, I came across a situation where my users (myself included) needed the ability to at any time reset the dropdown we were building to…
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an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
TL;DR We introduce NeoMME, a family of 260M and 800M multilingual multimodal encoders. Unlike many generative visual language models, NeoMME does not use a separate pretrained vision tower or a…
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August 2026 Jobs Report: Rebound Without Real Relief
Jobs increased far more than expected in August, but the show of strength may not move the needle much for frustrated job seekers. Key points: Nonfarm employers gained 162,000 jobs…
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Your DevOps Pipeline Is Already a Sustainability Program
During my doctoral research on modern engineering practices and operational efficiency, one pattern kept surfacing that I did not expect to find. The engineering teams making the most measurable progress…
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What’s the Fastest React Data Grid? Let’s Find Out (Benchmarks)
Web development has changed a lot. We have LLMs, AI-assisted coding, etc. But some things remain the same: architecture and performance. And one of the classic problems in many applications is presenting…
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Our most advanced global weather AI model
Real-world data at continuous global scale WeatherNext 3’s biggest leap forward is what it learns from. Most AI weather models, including WeatherNext 2, are trained on data from numerical weather…
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You Can’t “Vibe Code” Love
About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at…
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Providing developers the best model for the task at hand has always been our goal. Earlier this year, we made that easier by launching Auto model selection, which reviews your…
