Tanya Reilly
Senior Principal Engineer, Squarespace
Author of The Staff Engineer's Path. Essays and talks (including 'Being Glue') on the invisible work that keeps teams running.
Marc Brooker
VP & Distinguished Engineer, AWS
Rigorous posts on distributed systems, reliability, and the technical judgment expected of senior engineering leaders.
Dan Luu
Engineer & Writer, ex-Microsoft/Google
Data-driven, contrarian essays on engineering effectiveness, hiring, and organizational dysfunction.
Vicki Boykis
ML Engineering Leader, Mozilla
Writing on machine learning systems, careers, and the craft of leading data and ML teams.
Eugene Yan
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Applied ML leadership: system design, mentoring, and how to ship machine learning that matters.
Julia Evans
Engineer & Writer, ex-Stripe
Beloved for clear technical explainers and honest reflections on growth, mentoring, and senior IC/lead work.
Nelson Elhage
Distinguished Engineer, ex-Stripe
Made of Bugs. Thoughtful essays on debugging, systems, and senior technical leadership.
Bob Nystrom
Tech Lead, Dart @ Google
Language design and engineering craft from a longtime tech lead and author of Crafting Interpreters.
Swizec Teller
Senior Staff Engineer & Author
Senior Mindset writing connecting engineering craft with career growth into staff and leadership roles.
Cal Paterson
Engineer & Writer
Carefully argued essays on engineering practice, industry trends, and where conventional wisdom goes wrong.
Kyle Kingsbury
Distributed Systems Researcher (Jepsen)
Aphyr. The Jepsen analyses and essays that set the bar for technical rigor in distributed systems.
Chris Kiehl
Senior/Principal Engineer, Amazon
Candid, widely-shared essays on engineering careers, productivity, and what a decade in the industry teaches.
Jamie Tanna
Principal Engineer
Open, detailed working notes on engineering practice, API design, and growing into senior technical roles.
Robert Heaton
Software Engineer, ex-Stripe
Funny, instructive essays on engineering, security, and navigating a software career.
Armin Ronacher
Principal Architect, Sentry
The Flask creator on language design, architecture, and the technical judgment of a principal-level engineer.
Brendan Gregg
Performance Engineer, Intel; ex-Netflix
The definitive resource on systems performance, observability, and the deep technical craft senior leaders rely on.
Steve Yegge
Engineer & Leader, ex-Google/Grab/Sourcegraph
Stevey's legendary long-form rants on engineering culture, platforms, and the realities of life at Big Tech.
Dan Abramov
Engineer, ex-React core team
Overreacted. Patient, first-principles essays on JavaScript, abstractions, and how senior engineers think.
Steve Klabnik
Rust core team alumnus
Essays on Rust, documentation, open source governance, and the social side of engineering.
Russ Cox
Go Tech Lead, Google
research!rsc. Rigorous deep dives on Go, version control, and the engineering decisions behind major systems.
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Creator of Redis
antirez. Candid reflections on systems programming, open source stewardship, and the craft of building Redis.
Daniel Stenberg
Lead Developer, curl
Decades of writing on networking, open source maintenance, and sustaining one of the world's most-used libraries.
Nick Craver
Architecture Lead, ex-Stack Overflow
Famous deep dives into Stack Overflow's architecture and the engineering decisions that kept it fast and lean.
Brandur Leach
Engineer, Crunchy Data; ex-Stripe
Carefully crafted essays on API design, Postgres, idempotency, and building reliable production systems.
Zach Holman
Engineer & Startup Advisor, ex-GitHub
Sharp, funny writing on startups, firing, equity, and the engineering culture lessons from early GitHub.
Peter Bourgon
Distributed Systems Engineer (Go)
Influential writing on Go best practices, distributed systems, and pragmatic engineering at scale.
Jeff Geerling
Engineer & Author, DevOps/Ansible
Hands-on writing on automation, infrastructure, and open source from a prolific engineer-author.
Jake Archibald
Web Platform Engineer, ex-Google
Deep, playful explorations of browser internals, performance, and the web platform.
Surma
Engineer, ex-Shopify/Google
Writing on web performance, WebAssembly, and the hard parts of building for the modern web platform.
Amos Wenger
Systems Engineer & Writer
Long, immersive deep dives on Rust, systems programming, and how things really work under the hood.
Xe Iaso
Engineer, Tigris; ex-Tailscale
Thoughtful, personal writing on infrastructure, developer tooling, and the craft of software.
Filippo Valsorda
Cryptography Engineer, ex-Go team
Writing on applied cryptography, Go, and sustaining critical open source as a full-time maintainer.
Chip Huyen
ML Engineering Leader & Author
Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems. Writing on ML systems, MLOps, and leading AI engineering.
Sebastian Raschka
ML Researcher & Author
Clear, in-depth writing on machine learning, LLMs, and the engineering behind training models.
Gunnar Morling
Software Engineer, Decodable
Writing on data streaming, Java, and open source engineering from a longtime systems engineer.