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Recommended by Irina Stanescu

Accelerate your software engineering career with weekly tips. Read by engineers at Google, Netflix, Meta, and more. Written by a Software Engineer @ Google.

Excellent insights and advice for engineers wishing to grow their career in Tech. Must read!

- Irina Stanescu

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez Ibar

"The VC Corner" equips investors and entrepreneurs with crucial insights and updates, aiding in strategic decision-making within the dynamic startup landscape

The Uncommon Executive

By Yue Zhao

A career accelerator for aspiring executives. Subscribe for hard-won learnings on career growth, product building in Silicon Valley, venture investing and solo-entrepreneurship.

Techlead Mentor

By Raviraj Achar

Being a tech lead is a lot about behaviors. I learned a lot through trial and error and want to share actionable tips with you to master these behaviors.

Leading Developers

By Anton

Join 11,000+ software leaders for free weekly articles on managing and growing a development team!

The Software Engineering Times

By Ryan Murphy

A newsletters all about Software Engineering. Sign up if you want to level up, learn interview tips, grow in your career, learn emotive leadership, how to spot red flags, and learn from some of the best minds in technology.

Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

By Level up software engineering 🚀

Every other Wednesday, join 24,000+ engineers learning how to level up in their career. Everything you need to grow to senior engineer, tech lead and beyond.

Caleb's newsletter is easy to read and packed with practical information about how to grow your career! Highly recommend!

- Irina Stanescu

Engineer’s Codex

By Leonardo Creed

Explaining tools and technologies used and created by big tech companies. Become a smarter software engineer in just 7 minutes a week.

Level up as a Tech Lead

By Tech Leading Beyond Tech

A newsletter that covers the "lead" part from the Tech Lead role.

EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter

By Zach Wilson

A newsletter dedicated to talking about data engineering and technology trends

If you're looking to learn data engineering, Zach is your guy. Highly recommend! (also check out his youtube!)

- Irina Stanescu

Level Up by Ethan Evans

Level Up is your source for career growth solutions and community by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans. Content includes a newsletter, live podcasts/events, hours of video recording, and a private leadership networking community.

Ethan is a former Amazon VP sharing excellent leadership and career growth advice from his vast experience in the industry. Highly recommend his newsletter!

- Irina Stanescu

System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

A weekly newsletter to help you learn system design.

Excellent system design golden nuggets for anyone seeking to grow their technical skills or ace their technical interviews! Highly recommend.

- Irina Stanescu

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

Grow faster in your software engineering career with weekly actionable tips you can use right away.

Byte-Sized Design

Engineering summaries from the biggest tech companies straight to your inbox!

The Hybrid Hacker

By Nicola Ballotta

Practical advice on leveling up from Engineer to Leader. Management, Productivity, Engineering Practices—we get it all covered!

Tech World With Milan Newsletter

By Dr Milan Milanovic

Insights into a beautiful world of Software Engineering simplified. Join readers from Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and more.

Milan’s newsletter teaches you everything from inter-personal skills, critical thinking, and collaboration to software architecture, cloud computing and DevOps. Great for building both technical and non-technical skills!

- Irina Stanescu

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

It's obvious from his writing that Gregor cares a great deal about good leadership, helping people be better managers and grow their careers. Highly recommend this newsletter to anyone wanting to become a better leader!

- Irina Stanescu

ByteByteGo Newsletter

By Alex Xu

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 500,000 friendly readers.

The Pragmatic Engineer

By Gergely Orosz

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

Wes Kao's Newsletter

A weekly newsletter on how to be a sharper marketer, founder, and builder. Honest insights and practical advice for operators in the arena. Written by an a16z-backed founder.

Wes is an excellent story teller and her insights are pure gold! Not only she provides excellent advice, but she backs it up with tons of examples. Highly recommend subscribing!

- Irina Stanescu

Software Design: Tidy First?

By Kent Beck

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

Refactoring

By Luca Rossi

Practical advice on writing great software and working well with humans, delivered weekly to 75,000+ friends.

SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter

Learn About End-To-End Data Flows (Data Engineering, MLOps, and Data Science)

Ben's content is top-notch for much more than data engineers!! I enjoy learning about new data tools and technology from him, but also his very sound career growth advice. Highly recommend this newsletter!

- Irina Stanescu