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We invite our engineers to publish posts regularly about topics they’re passionate about to give you an inside look at our engineering organization and share our ideas with you.

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2026

The Weak EM Will Become An NPC

Guy Coleman
June 9, 2026

Teaching AI to Read the Room: How We Built an Automated Incident Classifier

Daniel Anderson
May 1, 2026

Adventures in the Modern Monolith: How do you keep a secret at Tilt?

Aaron Mumm
April 10, 2026

AI DevOps: Building Intelligent Incident Response Systems

Kyle Getty
February 13, 2026

Entropy Resistance

Guy Coleman
January 8, 2026

2025

Set Your AI Up for Success: How BDD Tickets Drive Quality Outcomes

Yves Da Silva
November 28, 2025

How We Built a Context-Aware Review Bot That Transformed Our Code Reviews

James Garrett
October 27, 2025

Beyond the Purchase Order: How We Actually Made AI Work for Engineering

James Garrett
September 11, 2025

C# String Performance Considerations

Kyle Getty
August 28, 2025

From Weekly Manual Slog to Rapid-Fire Releases: How Empower (Tilt) Revolutionized iOS Deployment

Dotan Tahir
July 18, 2025

Removing Foreign Key Constraints against Hot Tables

Matthew Preciado
April 4, 2025

Embracing AI at Empower: Beyond Code Generation

James Garrett
February 25, 2025

The N+1 Problem in Entity Framework Core: A Detective’s Guide to Spotting and Fixing It

Paul Gradie
February 19, 2025

Building Bonds Beyond the Screen: How Onsites Bring Our Remote Team Together

Heather Begley
January 17, 2025

2024

Managing Disagreements as a Software Developer: Lessons from Think Again

James Garrett
December 20, 2024

How to Interview Your Interviewer: Finding the Right Culture Fit for You

James Garrett
December 13, 2024

Building Trust in an Online Environment

Alexander Tulloh
December 6, 2024

Technical Debt, Quality, and Trade-offs: Striking the Right Balance

Justin Ammerlaan // Guy Coleman
November 29, 2024

INT → BIGINT, a SQL Story

Matthew Preciado
November 22, 2024

Three Strategies that’ll accelerate your path to Staff Engineer

Guy Coleman
November 15, 2024

Measure Twice, Cut, and Have Fun

James Garrett
October 11, 2024

6 Design Principles for Azure Pipelines

Paul Gradie
September 26, 2024

Let’s Talk 1:1

Dirko Swanepoel
September 6, 2024

Server-driven UI from scratch

Hamish Cundy
August 23, 2024

How Functional Programming Made Me A Better C# Developer

James Garrett
August 16, 2024

Modeling World-Class Delivery Systems

Paul Gradie
August 9, 2024