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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
Distributed databases with Peter Mattis (opens the original)
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How is it that a software veteran who regularly shipped ~100K of database-grade code to production each year, pre-AI, feels like he’s even more productive today, with no drop in quality? Peter Mattis is co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs, and an original creator of GIMP. He also worked on Gmail and distributed storage at Google. In this episode, Peter reflects on his journey from open source to Google to founding a database company, and we explore how to keep systems fast, reliable, and correc
“Problem solving on paper” (opens the original)
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with Maggie Appleton, Design Engineer at GitHub Next See the full episode on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
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
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Newsletter
1.1M subscribers
Measured Sep 19, 2026
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Outlet
Top 1M sites
Measured Aug 1, 2026
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Outlet
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Podcast
Apple #26 · US
Measured Sep 19, 2026
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YouTube
~537K subscribers
Measured Sep 19, 2026
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