Most read articles
These are some of the most viewed articles on the blog:
- Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large system
- Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated
- Undervalued software engineering skills: writing well
- The product-minded software engineer
- Scaling engineering teams via writing things down and sharing - aka RFCs
- Developers mentoring other developers
- Operating a large, distributed system in a reliable way
- Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
- Yes, you should estimate software projects
- Software engineering promotions advice
Mentions from popular newsletters
I read a lot of engineering and tech lead newsletters. A few mentions to articles on this blog I've spotted are these:
- The product-minded software engineer: the week's favorite on Software Lead Weekly, Issue #355
- Developers mentoring other developers: the week's featured post on Engineering Impact, Aug 2019 and The Pointer #152
- Software engineering promotions: advice to get to that next level: featured in the Pointer #156
- Good code reviews, better code reviews: featured in Programming Digest #333
- Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated: featured in Level Up! #7, Hacker Newsletter #471 and Software Weekly Aug 2019 issue