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System Design Codex

By Saurabh Dashora

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

Big Tech Careers

By Prasad Rao

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

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

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

The System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

Download my system design playbook on newsletter signup for FREE

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

- 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

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

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

The T-Shaped Dev

By Petar Ivanov

A weekly newsletter sharing practical tips on React, Node, and Software Architecture. Elevate your Full-Stack JavaScript skills to the next level!

Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth

The European Engineer

By Nicola Amadio

Top-Paying / Top-Lifestyle Tech Careers in Europe

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.

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.

Byte-Sized Design

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

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