Erik Bernhardsson

@erik_bernhardsson@robot.villas

Erik Bernhardsson's essays on software engineering, data, infrastructure, technology companies, and building products.

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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Business
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Feb 25, 2026
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #HumanComputerInteraction
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Sep 27, 2024
Predicting solar eclipses with Python #Python #Science #Data
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Apr 7, 2024
Simple sabotage for software #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Productivity
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Dec 13, 2023
What I have been working on: Modal #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Technology
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Dec 7, 2022
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change #CloudComputing #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Oct 19, 2022
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? #DataScience #ProductManagement #Engineering
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Apr 5, 2022
Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled #CloudComputing #Tech #Infrastructure
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Nov 30, 2021
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else. #DataScience #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement
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Jul 23, 2021
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story #DataScience #Startup #Engineering
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Jul 7, 2021
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist #SoftwareEngineering #Infrastructure #Tech
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Apr 19, 2021
What's Erik up to? #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #Tech
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Apr 1, 2021
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment #Tech
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Dec 16, 2020
Developer experience as a competitive advantage #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperExperience #Tech
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Oct 6, 2020
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect #Data #Statistics #Sweden
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Sep 23, 2020
How to set compensation using commonsense principles #Compensation #Tech #Management
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Jun 8, 2020
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #Data
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Mar 10, 2020
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model #Hiring #DataScience #Tech
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Jan 13, 2020
What can startups learn from Koch Industries? #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Dec 19, 2019
We're hiring at Better #Hiring #Tech #Engineering
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Dec 9, 2019
Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations #Tech #DataScience #Productivity
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Oct 16, 2019
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice #Career #Advice #Tech
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Sep 26, 2019
Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions #DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics
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Aug 5, 2019
Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #ProjectManagement
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Apr 15, 2019
Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people #Engineering #Management #Hiring
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Feb 21, 2019
Data architecture vs backend architecture #DataArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #Backend
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Jan 10, 2019
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates #DataScience #MachineLearning #Tech
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Oct 8, 2018
I don't want to learn your garbage query language #Data #SoftwareEngineering #Databases
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Aug 30, 2018
Business secrets from terrible people #Business #Ethics #Leadership
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Aug 16, 2018
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI
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Jun 17, 2018
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently #SoftwareEngineering #Microservices #DevOps
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Jun 4, 2018
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem #DataScience #MachineLearning #Hiring
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May 2, 2018
Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory: why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack #QueueingTheory #SystemDesign #Performance
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Mar 27, 2018
Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years #Blogging #ContentMarketing #SoftwareEngineering
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Mar 7, 2018
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors #MachineLearning #DataScience #Algorithms
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Feb 15, 2018
I'm looking for data engineers #DataEngineering #Hiring #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 28, 2018
Books I consumed in 2017 #Books #Reading #PersonalGrowth
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Jan 17, 2018
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #Git
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Jan 3, 2018
Toxic meeting culture #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #WorkCulture
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Dec 29, 2017
Learning from users faster using machine learning #MachineLearning #DataScience #SoftwareEngineering
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Dec 12, 2017