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Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

• Guyag 10y ago
  Depends what you want to get out of them. I find some are mostly focused around some of the more unique/cool challenges they come across (Google[1][2], Slack[3]), and others are more about how they solve the engineering challenges they face through software and/or about their dev process (Uber[4], Twitter[5]). Some are mix of the two (Dropbox[6], Netflix[7]). [1] https://developers.googleblog.com/ https://developers.googleblog.com/ [2] http://research.googleblog.com/ http://research.googleblog.com/ [3] https://slack.engineering https://slack.engineering [4] https://eng.uber.com/ https://eng.uber.com/ [5] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering https://blog.twitter.com/engineering [6] https://tech.dropbox.com https://tech.dropbox.com [7] http://techblog.netflix.com/ http://techblog.netflix.com/
  • CodyReichert 10y ago
    Another one for Google that's really interesting is their testing blog: https://testing.googleblog.com/ https://testing.googleblog.com/
• executesorder66 10y ago
  Although I don't like them, Cloudflare have a really good blog. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/
  • jgrahamc 10y ago
    Curious why you don't like Cloudflare.
    • davidsong 10y ago
      One reason to dislike them is that they're the NSA's favourite MITMiddleman.
      • kowdermeister 10y ago
        Do we have proof?
        • davidsong 10y ago
          This is an American company that strips SSL from many, many medium value targets; if they aren't thoroughly owned then the surveillance state is being negligent. A paranoid man would go even further than that and assume that monitored DDoS-proofing goes hand in hand with targetted, state-sponsored DDoS attacks.
    • Uptrenda 10y ago
      http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/ http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-hav... If you're interested this guy has a really good response to exactly that question
    • executesorder66 10y ago
      I don't dislike them because of shitty services or customer support or anything. In fact, in those regards they are pretty awesome. It's just a privacy thing. For details see the other responses.
    • thesmallestcat 10y ago
      Please include a disclaimer when defending your employer.
      • dfcowell 10y ago
        How is that a defense?
• ivarojha 10y ago
  Some more good ones that have not been listed yet. https://code.facebook.com/posts/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/ https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering https://redditblog.com/topic/technology/ https://redditblog.com/topic/technology/
• altern8tif 10y ago
  Great design + engineering teams = Awesome products Instagram (https://engineering.instagram.com/ https://engineering.instagram.com/) Stripe (https://stripe.com/blog/engineering https://stripe.com/blog/engineering) Airbnb (http://nerds.airbnb.com/ http://nerds.airbnb.com/)
• syllogism 10y ago
  StitchFix do lots of interesting ML stuff, such as Chris Moody's lda2vec. Their algorithms page is really cool: http://algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com/#recommendation-systems http://algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com/#recommendation-systems
• sklopi 10y ago
  Trivago: http://tech.trivago.com/ http://tech.trivago.com/
• ditn 10y ago
  Square have an excellent blog: https://medium.com/square-corner-blog https://medium.com/square-corner-blog Square put out a lot of fantastic libraries, and much of their output is basically essential for Android.
  • markovbling 10y ago
    crossfilter.js is incredibly useful for building interactive dashboards
• DrNuke 10y ago
  General Electric are at the forefront of industrial engineering and quite good at blowing their own trumpet.
  • nsebban 10y ago
    These two are in my bookmarks, and often have quite interesting reads. http://www.gereports.com/ http://www.gereports.com/ https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/blogger/ge https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/blogger/ge Any other interesting G-E sites I'm missing ?
• thesehands 10y ago
  Backblaze have a good one, with their annual drive failure survey being a highlight: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/
  • atYevP 10y ago
    Thanks!
• secfirstmd 10y ago
  Does https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com or Kaspersky's secure blog count? https://securelist.com/ https://securelist.com/
  • youdontknowtho 10y ago
    Project Zero is always a great read.
• brianbolger 10y ago
  Intercom have some great blogs: https://blog.intercom.com/ https://blog.intercom.com/ https://engineering.intercom.com/ https://engineering.intercom.com/
• abhirag 10y ago
  My vote would go to Discord's blog -- https://blog.discordapp.com/ https://blog.discordapp.com/
• natzar 10y ago
  Skyscanner's http://codevoyagers.com/ http://codevoyagers.com/
• arbesfeld 10y ago
  If you're interested in front-end development, there are a few companies which focus on that: - Apollo/Meteor: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/ https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/ - Auth0: https://auth0.com/blog/tech/ https://auth0.com/blog/tech/ - Chroma: https://blog.hichroma.com/ https://blog.hichroma.com/ - LogRocket (my company): https://blog.logrocket.com/ https://blog.logrocket.com/
• skl_ 10y ago
  Etsy https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/
• ramblenode 10y ago
  Digital Ocean has some quality posts I've found from Google, though I don't actively follow the blog. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/ https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/
  • carlmungz 10y ago
    Agreed. When we were setting up a server at work we found their how-to articles particularly useful.
  • jmknoll 10y ago
    I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.
  • jmknoll 10y ago
    I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.
  • tekkk 10y ago
    I have to agree that the posts I've read from DO have all been of the highest quality regarding ops-stuff. I think the bigger companies could use same kind of dedication to user-friendliness and focus more on making their communities better.
  • gketuma 10y ago
    +1 for Digital Ocean.
  • inertial 10y ago
    Came here to upvote DO. Most of the companies mentioned here write articles about their products, infra & engineering marvels.What makes DO different is that their articles are written for the end user.They have some of the most helpful articles on setting up servers, from start to end, with examples. Although not all posts are written by their own engineers [1] (nothing wrong, just saying). [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write
• dmytton 10y ago
  I'd like to suggest my company blog: https://blog.serverdensity.com https://blog.serverdensity.com As an example, our frontend engineering team just wrote up a series of posts about implementing graphing in React, migrating from Redux: - https://blog.serverdensity.com/time-series-charts-react-redux-d3/ https://blog.serverdensity.com/time-series-charts-react-redu... - https://blog.serverdensity.com/building-a-color-engine-for-graphing/ https://blog.serverdensity.com/building-a-color-engine-for-g... - https://blog.serverdensity.com/lessons-learned-implementing-redux-in-a-web-app/ https://blog.serverdensity.com/lessons-learned-implementing-... And I wrote about recent backend changes to our time series storage: https://blog.serverdensity.com/time-series-data-opentsdb-bigtable/ https://blog.serverdensity.com/time-series-data-opentsdb-big...
  • brightball 10y ago
    Server Density was always a great blog. Second this one!
• shdon 10y ago
  I actually really like many of the blogs at Microsoft. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but there's some gems in there. Raymond Chen's blog[1] in particular was good enough to get me to buy his book (which definitely did not disappoint). Other ones I subscribe to are the Microsoft Edge Dev Blog[2] , Mark Russinovich[3] and Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK[4] And there's a few that have unfortunately not been updated for a long time, such as Larry Osterman[5], or have come to an end, such as Rico Mariani[6] [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ [2] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/ [3] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/ [4] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chuckw/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chuckw/ [5] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/ [6] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/
  • tracker1 10y ago
    Another one from a MS guy... https://www.hanselman.com/ https://www.hanselman.com/
  • Rapzid 10y ago
    I'll have to second MS. I'll have to check out these individuals, but for sure some of the teams have been putting out really good reads. Recently with the chakra and DOM articles for edge, and I also enjoy the TypeScript and .Net blogs on a regular basis.
• henridf 10y ago
  Sysdig has had a bunch of nice posts over the last 2-3 years: https://sysdig.com/blog/tag/technical/ https://sysdig.com/blog/tag/technical/
• Svenstaro 10y ago
  OkCupid has great statistical into their data: https://theblog.okcupid.com/ https://theblog.okcupid.com/
  • vitno 10y ago
    we also have a tech blog that we are revitalizing! http://tech.okcupid.com http://tech.okcupid.com
• snowAbstraction 10y ago
  From time to time, I'v enjoyed Spotify's blog: https://labs.spotify.com/ https://labs.spotify.com/
• carlmungz 10y ago
  https://zapier.com/blog/ https://zapier.com/blog/ is a good place to visit from time to time.
• medgetable 10y ago
  Shameless plug for my company's blog: levvel.io/blog Lots of DevOps focus currently but also contains some stuff we're working on with machine learning, blockchain, and we are working on a much broader range of content. Plus we'd love more feedback on the posts :)
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• endymi0n 10y ago
  My personal upvote for the Google Cloud Platform blog: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/ https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/ ...a pretty mixed bag with some product & PR posts inside, but the gems inside (especially SRE / CRE life lessons) are pretty awesome. Also, we're getting started ourselves with some quality tech material - not too much there yet, but our Debugging Postgres post got a lot of love from the community: https://www.justwatch.com/blog/ https://www.justwatch.com/blog/
• xjrk58-2 10y ago
  Zalando https://tech.zalando.com/blog/?gh_src=kh6pjc1 https://tech.zalando.com/blog/?gh_src=kh6pjc1
• foob 10y ago
  What are peoples' thoughts on the marketing effectiveness of quality relative to quantity in blogging? We have recently started publishing what we consider to be very high quality material (the majority of them have front-paged on HN if that's any indication). Most of these have been published on [1] so far but we're in the process of transitioning to a more official company blog [2]. A close friend who really knows his way around marketing has been advising us to write more fluff pieces. We're really torn over this because we strongly dislike vapid content as consumers. I would be really curious to hear any anecdotes on the relative merits of the different strategies. [1] - http://sangaline.com http://sangaline.com [2] - https://intoli.com/blog/ https://intoli.com/blog/
  • dfcowell 10y ago
    The answer to this depends entirely upon who you're trying to reach with your tech-blog-as-marketing approach. If it's primarily recruitment-oriented marketing, or you're marketing a tech product (apologies, I haven't checked the link - but it's not relevant for this general advice). If it's recruitment-focused or you're a tech provider marketing to technical customers quality is probably more important. The intended audience is educated enough to spot and dismiss fluff outright and anyone that doesn't isn't a recruit or customer you want. If your goal is marketing to non-technical people who buy your product a technical blog is probably irrelevant at best and potentially destructive at worst. If the customer is non-technical and doesn't understand the material you present publicly, they may be scared off. Fluff pieces that demonstrate knowledge with lots of buzzwords that appeal to middle-upper management will be more effective with this audience.
    • foob 10y ago
      Thanks, that meshes well with my thoughts on it. We're less concerned with hiring right now than with acquiring more clients, but our customers are generally developers at small to medium sized startups. We fall into that category ourselves so we've felt like things that would appeal to us would also appeal to our customers (and vice versa).
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• quiqueqs 10y ago
  We just started a blog a few months ago at our company on a variety of topics such as mobile & BE development, as well as design [1]. Hopefully it's of use to the community :) I also enjoy the Hacker Noon articles [2] [1] https://blog.picnic.nl/ https://blog.picnic.nl/ [2] https://hackernoon.com/ https://hackernoon.com/
  • sushanthiray 10y ago
    *Hacker Noon
    • quiqueqs 10y ago
      Fixed, thanks!
• JayeshSidhwani 10y ago
  I had asked a similar question on Quora [1] few years back. Here is the summary: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering?sk=notes https://www.facebook.com/Engineering?sk=notes - Google: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ - Twitter: http://engineering.twitter.com/ http://engineering.twitter.com/ - Linkedin: http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog - Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/ https://tech.dropbox.com/ - Instagram: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/ http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/ - Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/ http://techblog.netflix.com/ - Flickr: http://code.flickr.com http://code.flickr.com - Etsy: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/ http://codeascraft.etsy.com/ - Yelp: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/ http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/ - Heroku: https://blog.heroku.com/ https://blog.heroku.com/ - Airbnb: http://nerds.airbnb.com/ http://nerds.airbnb.com/ - Bitly: http://word.bitly.com/ http://word.bitly.com/ - Evernote: https://blog.evernote.com/tech/ https://blog.evernote.com/tech/ - Highscalability: http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ [1] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-companies-that-have-some-of-the-best-engineering-blogs https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-companies-that-have-some-...
  • djhworld 10y ago
    A helpful list, but some (e.g. Bitly) haven't posted an article for more than 2 years. Could be useful for archived content though I guess.
  • jnordwick 10y ago
    Almost all web and ops :(
  • meigwilym 10y ago
    Twitter have moved to https://blog.twitter.com/engineering https://blog.twitter.com/engineering
  • Rapzid 10y ago
    Haha, basically all the big names :) There are some gems spread out across them all for sure; such as "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" from LinkedIn.
• flohofwoe 10y ago
  RiotGames: https://engineering.riotgames.com/ https://engineering.riotgames.com/ Autodesk Stingray (formerly Bitsquid): http://bitsquid.blogspot.de/ http://bitsquid.blogspot.de/
  • jkchu 10y ago
    Glad you mentioned Riot Games. I stumbled on their dev blog this year and found their content to be excellent. I personally really enjoyed their post about their messaging service: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riot-messaging-service https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riot-messaging-servic...
    • woodrowbarlow 10y ago
      i've never been interested in video game development but one day i saw an article they posted giving a technical overview of their graphics pipeline [1] and i couldn't stop reading. [1] https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphic...
• ryan42 10y ago
  https://product.reverb.com/ https://product.reverb.com/ This is a good one
• benmanns 10y ago
  We recently started an engineering blog at Doximity [1] that I think is good (though it has less heavy technical content than others). I'd be really interested in what you all think is effective for both blogs-as-recruiting-tools and for giving back to the community. For our particular product, basically (users)∩(blog readers)=∅ so content is created solely for the software community. [1] - https://engineering.doximity.com/ https://engineering.doximity.com/
• ionwake 10y ago
  Have Blogs been superseded by Vlogs ?
  • wanda 10y ago
    Not for me or anyone else who commutes by train through areas where 4G coverage is limited and who has a limited data plan anyway.
  • luord 10y ago
    I've never gotten into vlogs or podcasts. Why watch/listen something in an hour that can be read in ten minutes?
• RBerenguel 10y ago
  The developer blog at StitchFix is excellent: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/ http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/ Most Scala consultancies/companies have their own internal blogs and most are excellent, for instance, underscore: http://underscore.io/blog/ http://underscore.io/blog/
• lukaszkups 10y ago
  Rising Stack blog: https://blog.risingstack.com/ https://blog.risingstack.com/ Ok Grow! blog: https://www.okgrow.com/posts https://www.okgrow.com/posts Differential blog: https://differential.com/insights/ https://differential.com/insights/
• happy-go-lucky 10y ago
  http://planetpython.org/ http://planetpython.org/ It's not a corporate blog, but if you're interested in Python, go check it out for recent postings from Python-related blogs.
• kaishiro 10y ago
  Thoughtbot, in addition to having a really good blog, is at least in the running for one of the best names (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots). https://robots.thoughtbot.com/ https://robots.thoughtbot.com/ I love it because the articles are often small, one off tips re: vim, the command line, ruby, etc. Really neat stuff.
  • caiob 10y ago
    > Really neat stuff Pun intended?
• willsewell 10y ago
  Pusher: https://making.pusher.com/ https://making.pusher.com/ Disclosure: I work there and have written articles for the blog. At the moment we mainly blog about our experiences with Golang (our language of choice right now). But really it's open to any topic someone in our engineering team is interested in writing about. We aim to keep things visual, interactive and example-based. For example Jim Fisher created an interactive animation of Golang's GC algorithm here: https://making.pusher.com/golangs-real-time-gc-in-theory-and-practice/#how-does-a-concurrent-garbage-collector-work https://making.pusher.com/golangs-real-time-gc-in-theory-and.... We also managed to embed Golang's trace visualiser within one of the posts: https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace/#tour-of-the-go-tool-trace-interface https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace/#tour-of-the-go-tool... (using some pretty dirty tricks).
• Viz4ps 10y ago
  Sophos (security software) https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/ Not pushing their products. Sensible advice and news coverage.
• amitsingh45 10y ago
  OpsDash's blog has some interesting technical posts, esp. on Postgres and Go: https://www.opsdash.com/blog/index.html https://www.opsdash.com/blog/index.html
• yebyen 10y ago
  Deis blog: https://deis.com/blog/ https://deis.com/blog/ Especially @rimusz, who is not technically part of Deis engineering team (?) : https://deis.com/blog/2016/first-kubernetes-cluster-gke/ https://deis.com/blog/2016/first-kubernetes-cluster-gke/ Partially self-serving post because I'm also published here: https://deis.com/blog/2016/cheapest-fault-tolerant-cluster-deis/ https://deis.com/blog/2016/cheapest-fault-tolerant-cluster-d... Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an index of the posts on one page! There are links to relevant posts on the sidebar and both of those have good relevant links. These guys I worked with for a long time, to get my post out! It kind of stung a bit when the v1 PAAS was officially deprecated before I got to put it online. But in terms of support, the newer solutions are only better. The lessons learned putting this post out are still valid, even if the specific product of the tutorial is no longer relevant. (I used this process to create my own CoreOS bare metal cluster, and I don't actually use DigitalOcean in my day-to-day work.) But the other content on the blog really was a good, focused introduction to Kubernetes and friends for me. Deis is the team that created Helm and it was subsumed into Kubernetes (and Helm Classic, which was another iteration before it was part of Kubernetes proper.)
• gk1 10y ago
  For a data science flavor, see https://blog.dominodatalab.com https://blog.dominodatalab.com For web dev, Netlify posts frequently and even has podcasts: https://www.netlify.com/blog/ https://www.netlify.com/blog/
• robbiemitchell 10y ago
  Knewton (where I once led marketing) flew mostly under the radar as a tech company because (a) NYC and (b) education, but the data science shop it built up a few years ago was killer, and the people who left went on to top tier companies. As a result of that talent, the tech blog there -- modeled after Netflix -- was solid. https://tech.knewton.com/ https://tech.knewton.com/
• itsallrelative 10y ago
  http://www.astronomer.io/blog http://www.astronomer.io/blog all of their technical pieces are pretty on point
• bretthopper 10y ago
  GitHub: https://githubengineering.com/ https://githubengineering.com/ Really surprised it wasn't mentioned yet. They do really in depth posts and show metrics too. Example: https://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-faster/ https://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-fast...
• eloycoto 10y ago
  OpenCredo is a good blog to read: https://opencredo.com/blog/ https://opencredo.com/blog/ On the other hand, Cloudflare, Stripe and Netflix have some awesome articles too.
• apeace 10y ago
  The Cloudflare blog is top-notch. If you skim past all their product and data center announcements, there is a ton of good technical content. https://blog.cloudflare.com https://blog.cloudflare.com
• bio_end_io_t 10y ago
  http://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/ http://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/ FittedCloud is a small start-up that does automatic cloud resource optimization. They post regularly and go into topics ranging from technical details of machine learning to cost optimization for AWS resources (EBS, EC2, DynamoDB, etc). As far as I can tell, they are the only company around that can automatically scale up and down EBS resources in a way that the customer only pays for what he or she uses, rather than paying for over-provisioned, unused storage...all without downtime or performance hic-cup. These guys know a lot about the cloud and storage.
• dguido 10y ago
  Trail of Bits! Topics include software security, control flow integrity, reverse engineering, program analysis, fuzzing, compilers, etc. https://blog.trailofbits.com https://blog.trailofbits.com
• 100ideas 10y ago
  Lift Engineering blog - not too technical but interesting b/c we all enjoy the product: https://eng.lyft.com/ https://eng.lyft.com/ start here: https://eng.lyft.com/matchmaking-in-lyft-line-9c2635fe62c4 https://eng.lyft.com/matchmaking-in-lyft-line-9c2635fe62c4
• dkdkang 10y ago
  More geared towards front-end stuff - good stuff: http://blog.rangle.io/ http://blog.rangle.io/
• Kmaschta 10y ago
  I'm not impartial but I read every marmelab blog post: https://marmelab.com/blog/ https://marmelab.com/blog/
• spollo 10y ago
  I really like the segment engineering blog. https://segment.com/blog/categories/engineering/ https://segment.com/blog/categories/engineering/ They run a pretty modern cloud stack using fun technology like terraform, which gives me serious envy as well as inspiration. They also have some ridiculously high quality posts with open source code included such as: https://segment.com/blog/the-segment-aws-stack/ https://segment.com/blog/the-segment-aws-stack/ (highly recommended reading).
• r3mko 10y ago
  Khan Academy's engineering blog is great if you're into Google App Engine, React, ... http://engineering.khanacademy.org http://engineering.khanacademy.org
• SergeAx 10y ago
  I like Badoo tech blog: https://techblog.badoo.com https://techblog.badoo.com
• duvander 10y ago
  Awhile back I found this curated engineering blog list https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs
• leemalmac 10y ago
  Awesome answers here. Some self marketing - I developed a parser for some engineering blogs. I did it for myself, and created a simple web app to serve content - http://kubiq.co http://kubiq.co. I'm going to add more companies soon. Enjoy!
  • leemalmac 10y ago
    Btw, I'm thinking to create iOS app as well. Anyone will use it?
    • pawanpe 10y ago
      Thanks for sharing! Search enhancement on web will be helpful. I will not use app.
• tristor 10y ago
  Not an "engineering blog" in the traditional sense. Percona has been posting deep-dive high-quality pieces about database performance and the inner workings of InnoDB since around 2006, so more than 10 years now. If you've ever had to troubleshoot a weird performance issue in MySQL as an Ops guy or DBA, you've probably ended up finding this in your Google results: https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/ Disclaimer: I am currently employed by Percona, although that is not my motivation for sharing this.
  • neduma 10y ago
    +1 on mysql internals and deep-dives
• japhyr 10y ago
  The Caktus team has a great technical blog with many posts about Python and Django. I've also really enjoyed visiting with their people at PyCon over the years. https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/ https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/
• PascLeRasc 10y ago
  https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs is a good curated list
  • detaro 10y ago
    Why do people insist on calling these dumps of all links they can find/get submitted in PRs "curated"?! It has almost 600 entries, with no extra content or structure...
    • PascLeRasc 10y ago
      I tried to submit a few a while ago and they said they weren't rigorous enough, so that's curation enough for me.
    • mydpy 10y ago
      Agreed. Personally I think asking for general blog recommendations is not helpful. I just google topics I'm interested and start to create that list myself. Also - I think the idea of creating blog followers is becoming less popular. I use aggregators like this to help collect the content and I can filter on my own.
• PascLeRasc 10y ago
  Are there any good engineering blogs that are more hardware/manufacturing oriented?
• menegattig 10y ago
  If you are looking for a database-related blog, SlicingDice's is a good one: https://blog.slicingdice.com/ https://blog.slicingdice.com/ This series of posts below describes in details how they built their database engine from scratch and the data warehouse service. - https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-1-infrastructure-f6bc8f270781 https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-1-in... - https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-2-s1search-33d2240a96c1 https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-2-s1... - https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-3-s1search-in-depth-bb72f3955c27 https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-3-s1... - https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-4-integrity-and-scalability-tests-28c165ca8e30 https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-4-in...
• irfansharif 10y ago
  in my biased opinion, the Cockroach Labs, Inc. blog[1] (the team behind cockroachdb/cockroach[2]) fares pretty well. [1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/ [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
• DarkContinent 10y ago
  I really like Civis Analytics, which is here: https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/ https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/
• rconradharris 10y ago
  The pre-acquisition Ksplice blog was fantastic. Now available at: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice
• schemathings 10y ago
  https://blog.jooq.org/ https://blog.jooq.org/ is excellent if you do any SQL
• andrestc 10y ago
  I really like the packagecloud one: https://blog.packagecloud.io/ https://blog.packagecloud.io/ With posts like these one: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/ https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tunin...
• huevosabio 10y ago
  I really like Stitch Fix blog :http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com
• allenleein 10y ago
  Jane Street: https://blogs.janestreet.com/ https://blogs.janestreet.com/
• deepnotderp 10y ago
  I like Google's deepmind.
• nandaja 10y ago
  I like the Recurse center codewords publication https://codewords.recurse.com/ https://codewords.recurse.com/
• neduma 10y ago
  http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - By Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Thinking further on this.. Apple is totally not in the picture or i do not know.
• mrpippy 10y ago
  First blog I thought of, although it's not a company: Dolphin. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ As for actual companies, as an embedded dev I think Atomic Object (https://spin.atomicobject.com https://spin.atomicobject.com) and Free Electrons (http://free-electrons.com/blog/ http://free-electrons.com/blog/) both do a good job.
• praneshp 10y ago
  Since there are a lot of examples here, I'll mention HighScalability [0], which takes many talks and writes it out as text. [0] http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/
• scardine 10y ago
  I think they appeal more to the bootstrappers than to the YC startup crowd - but I like everything from 37 signals.
• silent1mezzo 10y ago
  For those that have started a tech blog for your own engineering teams, how did you get people to write? How did you get buy-in from management? I'm trying to get our tech blog off the ground but it's difficult to get buy-in from everyone.
• blimpy 10y ago
  My co-workers at End Point write some pretty useful posts, with a lot of practical ones around Linux sysadmin and devops topics: http://blog.endpoint.com/ http://blog.endpoint.com/ A bit self-promotional since I blog there too, but I'm greatly outnumbered.
• amingilani 10y ago
  Disclosure: I'm an Editor at the Toptal Engineering blog. Toptal has extremely active and wonderful blog for developers[1], designers[2] and finance experts[3]. The reason I can make that claim is because Toptal's blog posts are contributed by members of our network, all of whom are verified experts in their fields, and we guide them through the entire process to help them write the perfect blog post. We publish new articles almost every day! We invest a lot of love into maintaining our publication and try to publish the most useful content for fellow experts. [1]: https://www.toptal.com/developers/blog#contract-just-respected-software-architects https://www.toptal.com/developers/blog#contract-just-respect... [2]: https://www.toptal.com/designers/blog#contract-just-respected-software-architects https://www.toptal.com/designers/blog#contract-just-respecte... [3]: https://www.toptal.com/finance/blog#contract-just-respected-software-architects https://www.toptal.com/finance/blog#contract-just-respected-...
• alexforsyth 10y ago
  I am biased, I know, but I would like to recommend my company's three blogs: https://medium.com/outsystems-experts https://medium.com/outsystems-experts https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering https://www.outsystems.com/blog/category/tech-zone https://www.outsystems.com/blog/category/tech-zone
• jerska 10y ago
  Algolia : https://blog.algolia.com/ https://blog.algolia.com/
• dragonne 10y ago
  Scylla's blog has some excellent technical content, though it's intermixed with lots release announcements. http://www.scylladb.com/2017/01/02/top-5-blog-posts-of-2016/ http://www.scylladb.com/2017/01/02/top-5-blog-posts-of-2016/ has some of the highlights.
• mite-mitreski 10y ago
  Best one in the nordics https://engineering.klarna.com/ https://engineering.klarna.com/
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• cZuLi 9y ago
  Buddy Works blog is top-notch. I've found from Google, there is a ton of good technical content. [1] https://buddy.works/guides https://buddy.works/guides [2] https://buddy.works/blog https://buddy.works/blog
• karlhughes 9y ago
  If anyone here is a Feedly user, I keep a list of around 300 software engineering blogs in a shared collection: http://feedly.com/karllhughes/Engineering%20Blogs http://feedly.com/karllhughes/Engineering%20Blogs A lot of the blogs in this thread are in there.
• Nodraak 9y ago
  I love Gitlab's open source culture. They have a blog where they share many things, for example their database incident when an engineer deleted the backup and production databases : https://about.gitlab.com/blog/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/ On a not-only-engineering topic, they also share a lot about what they do through their handbook : https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
• hackerwho 9y ago
  Oracle A-Team Chronicles http://www.ateam-oracle.com http://www.ateam-oracle.com http://www.ateam-oracle.com/idm/ http://www.ateam-oracle.com/idm/