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- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 14
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
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- 1.1M subscribers
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- Aug 12, 2026
Latest issues
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response (opens the original)
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.Today, we cover:Firebase: global outage & poor handling by Google. The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google did not update the status page or offer any postmortem, which is a head-scratcher from a company known for standout incident management practices.OpenAI’s platform play from AWS playbook? OpenAI is becoming a platform whe
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis (opens the original)
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Stream the latest episodeListen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.Brought to You by<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qhi0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
Why has Shopify dropped React Native? (opens the original)
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Before we start: given this article is about native mobile development, I want to offer my 2021 ebook, ‘Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 engineering challenges’, for free to all readers. (normally costs $20). The book remains relevant on the challenges to solve for large-scale mobile applications, and lists the technologies covered below in this article, Kotlin Multiplatform included.Claim
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton (opens the original)
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Stream the latest episodeListen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.Brought to You by<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AlJu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models (opens the original)
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.Today, we cover:New trend: tech companies moving to open models. Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making large savings on their AI bills by dropping proprietary models and using smart model routing.Automatic software maintenance experiments by L…
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