By Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter and Building Mobile Apps at Scale
Navigating senior, tech lead, staff and principal positions at tech companies and startups. An Amazon #1 Best Seller. New: the hardcover is out! As is the audibook. Now available in 6 languages.
I’m sorry, but I can’t help with downloading that content. However, I can give you a detailed review of Overview Show: I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (Greek edition) Season: 8 (2024) Network: Star Channel (Greece) Premiere: Early September 2024, running for 7 weeks Location: The jungle set in a remote part of Greece (the production moved from the traditional South African location to a Greek forested area for this season). Premise A group of Greek celebrities—actors, singers, athletes, and internet personalities—are dropped into a jungle camp with minimal comforts. They must complete a series of “Bushtucker” challenges and trials to earn food, luxuries, and immunity from elimination. The public votes each week to decide who stays, culminating in a final showdown for the title of “King/Queen of the Jungle.” Cast Highlights | Celebrity | Claim to Fame | Notable Personality Traits | |-----------|--------------|----------------------------| | Maria Papadopoulou | Pop singer (hit “Sunrise”) | Charismatic, strong vocalist, often leads camp sing‑alongs | | Giorgos “Gio” Karamanlis | Former professional footballer | Competitive, protective of fellow contestants, brings sportsmanship to challenges | | Katerina “Kat” Sarris | Reality‑TV star from “Love Island Greece” | Flirty, social‑butterfly, excels in mental puzzles | | Dimitris “Dimi” Laskaris | Comedy actor (TV sitcom “Family Ties”) | Humorist, often lightens tension, sometimes reckless in trials | | Eleni Voulgaris | Chef & food‑entrepreneur | Practical, often volunteers for kitchen duties, gives food‑related tips | | Nikos “Niko” Vasilakis | YouTuber (gaming & lifestyle) | Tech‑savvy, quick to devise strategies, sometimes aloof | | Sofia Markou | Model/beauty‑pageant queen | Graceful, diplomatic, strong leadership in group decisions | | Vasilis “Vaso” Giannakopoulos | Former MP (politics) | Persuasive, often mediates conflicts, brings a strategic mind to voting |
Season 8 of “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Greece” successfully refreshed the franchise by transplanting the jungle experience to a Greek backdrop, delivering a compelling blend of drama, humor, and heartfelt moments. The cast’s chemistry—particularly the evolving friendship between Giorgos and Eleni and the redemption arc of Kat—kept audiences invested. While the food challenges could use more variety and the mid‑season pacing could be tightened, the overall production quality and emotional depth make this season a standout entry in the series. I’m sorry, but I can’t help with downloading
If you enjoy reality competition shows that combine physical endurance with personal storytelling—and you appreciate a Mediterranean twist—Season 8 is definitely worth watching from start to finish. Note: I’m unable to help with downloading episodes. You can watch the series legally through the official broadcaster’s streaming platform (Star Channel’s on‑demand service) or any authorized partner that holds the distribution rights in your region. Enjoy the jungle adventure! Enjoy the jungle adventure!
The book is separated into six standalone parts, each part covering several chapters:
Parts 1 and 6 apply to all engineering levels: from entry-level software developers to principal or above engineers. Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 cover increasingly senior engineering levels. These four parts group topics in chapters – such as ones on software engineering, collaboration, getting things done, and so on.
This book is more of a reference book that you can refer back to, as you grow in your career. I suggest skimming over the career levels and chapters that you are familiar with, and focus reading on topics you struggle with, or career levels where you are aiming to get to. Keep in mind that expectations can vary greatly between companies.
In this book, I’ve aimed to align the topics and leveling definitions closer to what is typical at Big Tech and scaleups: but you might find some of the topics relevant for lower career levels in later chapters. For example, we cover logging, montiroing and oncall in Part 5: “Reliable software systems” in-depth: but it’s useful – and oftentimes necessary! – to know about these practices below the staff engineer levels.
The Software Engineer's Guidebook is available in multiple languages:
You should now be able to ask your local book shops to order the book for you via Ingram Spark Print-on-demand - using the ISBN code 9789083381824. I'm also working on making the paperback more accessible in additional regions, including translated versions. Please share details here if you're unable to get the book in your country and I'll aim to remedy the situation.
I'd like to think so! The book can help you get ideas on how to help software engineers on your team grow. And if you are a hands-on engineering manager (which I hope you might be!) then you can apply the topics yourself! I wrote more about staying hands-on as an engineering manager or lead in The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter.
I've gotten this variation of a question from Data Engineers, ML Engineers, designers and SREs. See the more detailed table of contents and the "Look inside" sample to get a better idea of the contents of the book. I have written this book with software engineers as the target group, and the bulk of the book applies for them. Part 1 is more generally applicable career advice: but that's still smaller subset of the book.
