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Recommended by Fran Soto

Big Tech Careers

By Prasad Rao

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

The Engineering Leader

By Rafa Páez

The go-to newsletter for high agency engineers and leaders ready to elevate their craft and multiply their impact.

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

System Design Codex

By Saurabh Dashora

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

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 System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

Download my system design playbook for free on newsletter signup

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

- 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!

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

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

The European Engineer

By Nicola Amadio

Boost your Career, Personal Finance and Lifestyle as a Software Engineer in Europe.

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

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.

Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth