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The System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

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Real companies doing real software engineering. Neo's newsletter offers a surprisingly easy-to-digest view of complex real-world architectures 🏭

- Fran Soto

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

Bitsy

By Akos Komuves

Real-world experience distilled into actionable insights for software engineers aspiring to get the most out of their careers – once a week.

The T-Shaped Dev

By Petar Ivanov

Production-grade engineering for full-stack JavaScript developers who want to think like architects — React, Node, software architecture, and building real AI systems. No fluff, every week.

22nd Century Frontier™

By Petar Dimov

Building or Investing in the Future? This Newsletter Is Your Edge

The Founders Corner®

By Ruben Dominguez

Your weekly BOOST to Raise and Grow Like A Pro. Tips and Techniques used by prolific Founders.

The best way to stay updated on what’s actually happening inside top companies

- Fran Soto

Javarevisited Newsletter

By javinpaul

Master Java and System Design Interviews. Level up your Software Engineering career. Subscribe and get free copy of my book Grokking the Spring Boot Interview in your inbox

Big Tech Careers

By Prasad Rao

Fast track your career at MAANG+ with proven strategies and expert guidance!

The European Engineer

By Nicola Amadio

Top-paying tech careers in Europe: six-figure tech roles, remote life, taxes, and relocation.

The Peterman Post

By Ryan Peterman

Sharing learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram

The Hustling Engineer

By Hemant Pandey

Weekly actionable tips in 2 minutes to accelerate your career growth in tech

Hemant is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta. I found his writing about career growth super insightful. He condensed real-life experience into actionable topics! 🔥

- Fran Soto

Byte-Sized Design

Master system design concepts, engineering fundamentals, and interview basics. Weekly summaries, post-mortems, and advice for 43,000+ engineers.

Alex is synthesizing learnings from big tech companies and bringing it to us in a super easy-to-read form. And it's a great person to chat with!

- Fran Soto

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez

The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow.

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

Grow faster in your software engineering career with actionable tips you can use right away. Written by a Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest.

Jordan's essays are accurate and to the point. Zero bullshit, everything is an actionable learning. Don't stop at the newsletter, check his live sessions on LinkedIn 🎯

- Fran Soto

WonderLead in Tech

By Patricia Juarez Muñoz

Get guidance on your career, productivity, AI, EQ strategies, and valuable insights to thrive in tech in the AI era. From a Staff Engineer at AWS. Learn to own your career path together with other Wonder Leaders.

System Design Codex

By Saurabh Dashora

The best place to learn practical System Design with concepts and case studies

The Global Move

By Andrew Stetsenko

The internet’s largest hand-curated collection of tech jobs offering visa sponsorship and relocation support.

Hungry Minds

By Alexandre Zajac

Get smarter about Software and AI in 5 minutes. Save 50+ hours/week with deep dives, trends, and tools hand-picked from 100+ sources. Join 50,000+ engineers from big tech to startups for 1 free email every Monday.

Engineer’s Codex

By Engineer's Codex

Real-world software engineering explained simply.

Real industry case studies and condensed lessons. The amount of information per word is mind-blowing! 🧠

- Fran Soto