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I expected to find a list of technical blogs but found "corporate" engineering blogs. IMHO, these are anything but engineering blogs. Don't be fooled by engine

I expected to find a list of technical blogs but found "corporate" engineering blogs. IMHO, these are anything but engineering blogs. Don't be fooled by engineering.company.com sub-domaines, most of them only scratch the surface of technologies and most of the time have unnecessary marketing noise. If you really want to learn some technology, I advise against corporate blogs (except if your goal is actually to be aware of what technologies are companies using)

kilimchoi 11y ago
I included airpair.com/posts and they actually contain interesting technical blog posts.
- donedonedone 11y ago
  Didn't know about this one, looks interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing!
birken 11y ago
I completely disagree. If you work on a small engineering team and want to broaden your knowledge of technologies you might want to use, reading about approaches that larger companies use is a great source of information. Most cutting edge software engineering (not computer science), occurs in technology companies. So if you ignore "corporate" engineering blogs, then you are hugely limiting your exposure to how software engineering works in the real world. Of course the companies are not blogging about everything, but that is irrelevant. Your choices are either a) not learn anything or b) learn stuff that might be dated (but probably also battle tested and rock solid). And I think you are way off with the advertising thing. The reason most companies make these engineering blogs is to attract engineering talent, thus their incentive is to post cool stuff which is interesting and exciting. Look at Etsy's great engineering blog [1] which I've personally learned quite a bit from. Read a few posts... they aren't trying to sell arts and crafts. ---- 1: https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/, in the OP's list
Confusion 11y ago
Prejudiced much? I just looked at the first three links, Adzerk, AdRoll and Airbnb, and found technically interesting posts on all three of them.

kilimchoi 11y ago

I included airpair.com/posts and they actually contain interesting technical blog posts.

donedonedone 11y ago
Didn't know about this one, looks interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing!

birken 11y ago

I completely disagree. If you work on a small engineering team and want to broaden your knowledge of technologies you might want to use, reading about approaches that larger companies use is a great source of information. Most cutting edge software engineering (not computer science), occurs in technology companies. So if you ignore "corporate" engineering blogs, then you are hugely limiting your exposure to how software engineering works in the real world. Of course the companies are not blogging about everything, but that is irrelevant. Your choices are either a) not learn anything or b) learn stuff that might be dated (but probably also battle tested and rock solid). And I think you are way off with the advertising thing. The reason most companies make these engineering blogs is to attract engineering talent, thus their incentive is to post cool stuff which is interesting and exciting. Look at Etsy's great engineering blog [1] which I've personally learned quite a bit from. Read a few posts... they aren't trying to sell arts and crafts. ---- 1: https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/, in the OP's list

Confusion 11y ago

Prejudiced much? I just looked at the first three links, Adzerk, AdRoll and Airbnb, and found technically interesting posts on all three of them.