resources

A curated collection of technical articles, blog posts, and resources that I’ve found valuable in my work or influenced my thinking as an engineer.

Technical

• Inside Git - Julia Evans
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction - LinkedIn Engineering
• Systems Design for Advanced Beginners - Robert Heaton
• Scaling Linux Services Before Accepting Connections - Theo Julienne
• Publishing Apache Kafka for The New York Times - Confluent
• Context-aware MySQL pools via HAProxy - GitHub Engineering
• Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack - Slack Engineering

Engineering Process & Documentation

• The Standard of Code Review - Google Engineering
• Design Docs at Google - Malte Ubl
• How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack - Slack Engineering
• A Google Cloud Support Engineer Solves a Tough DNS Case - Google Cloud

Engineering Leadership & Management

• Technical Lead Management 101 or How to Try Out Management - Adam Conrad
• The new Tech Lead’s survival guide - Clockwise
• The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth — Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook - First Round Review
• The Principal Engineer’s Handbook - Ilya Grigorik
• This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like - First Round Review
• Manager Impact on Report Performance — Leadership Style and impact on reports - Roy Rapoport

Communication & Team Building

• Basecamp’s Guide to Internal Communication
• GitLab Communication Handbook
• 37signals on Communication
• Think Fast, Talk Smart Podcast - Stanford GSB
• Founders Journal Podcast - Morning Brew

Misc / Non-Engineering

• Can History Predict the Future? - Nicolas Ortega, 2020; Decades of social and political trends, elite overproduction, etc culmninating in a tumultous decade.