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Recommended by Caleb Mellas

Accelerate your software engineering career with weekly tips. Read by engineers at Google, Netflix, Meta, and more. Written by a Software Engineer @ Google.

Hacking Scale by Better Stack

A weekly newsletter about building and scaling software from engineers at Better Stack

Awesome system design and scaling deep-dives for engineers who are looking to develop their scaling and distributed systems skills and experience.

- Caleb Mellas

Elevate

By Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani's newsletter on elevating your effectiveness. Join his community of 600,000 readers across social media.

Addy is an all time all-star engineering leader. Super solid advice on growing in your soft skills, leadership skills, and deeper coding skills. Highly recommend following him.

- Caleb Mellas

Front-End Focus

By Mads Brodt

Get the freshest updates from the front-end world, amazing resources to get smarter, and cool new tools worth checking out - all to help you level up your front-end skills. No spam, unsubscribe any time.

Subscribe for the latest updates in frontend engineering. This world changes fast so you need someone like Mads to break down the latest and greatest you need to be aware of!

- Caleb Mellas

Techlead Mentor

By Raviraj Achar

Being a tech lead is a lot about behaviors. I learned a lot through trial and error and want to share actionable tips with you to master these behaviors.

Solid advice for those looking to grow into senior+ and tech lead roles at their company - from an experienced staff engineer at Meta.

- Caleb Mellas

The Software Engineering Times

By Ryan Murphy

Become the next generation of software engineering leadership and level up as a current engineering leader with weekly insights.

Solid advice on career growth, and your engineering skills from a seasoned engineering manager. Great reads.

- Caleb Mellas

Engineer’s Codex

By Engineer's Codex

Real-world software engineering explained simply.

Follow for excellent insights into systems design, as well as how to be a top 1% software engineer!

- Caleb Mellas

The Modern Software Developer

By Richard Donovan

Richard is a great follow for anyone looking for advice to be more successful in their career as an engineer, and as a human. His focus on mindset and mental/physical health helps us all be better humans.

- Caleb Mellas

System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

A weekly newsletter to help you pass system design interview and become good at work

Excellent deep-dive resource and stories of scaling systems for anyone looking to level up in their systems design skills. 🚀

- Caleb Mellas

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

A fellow Senior Software Engineer helping engineers fast-track their career with real-world advice.

- Caleb Mellas

The Developing Dev

By Ryan Peterman

Brief, weekly posts to help you accelerate your software engineering career, written by a Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram

A helpful newsletter that fills the gaps for software engineers who don’t have dedicated mentorship in 5 minutes or less.

- Caleb Mellas

Hybrid Hacker

By Luca Rossi

Personal growth and practical life advice for engineers. Read weekly by 35K+ friends in startups and big tech.

Excellent in-depth advice and insights for engineering leaders.

- Caleb Mellas

Craft Better Software

By Daniel Moka

Master Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Extreme Programming (XP)

Scarlet Ink

By Dave

Tech industry career and leadership advice from an ex-Amazon GM and Tech Director.

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

Great newsletter for engineers and leaders looking to stay up to date in their skills, and grow in their career.

- Caleb Mellas

Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth

Rock solid advice for engineers looking to grow in technical leadership, software reliability and more. Highly recommend Alex’s newsletter!

- Caleb Mellas

The Caring Techie Newsletter

By Irina Stanescu

The people skills you need to turn your potential into performance in Tech. Lessons from Google, Uber, and startups.

A newsletter about humans, leadership and the tech industry based on experience at big tech companies and early-stage startups.

- Caleb Mellas

Wes Kao's Newsletter

A weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, and standing out as a high-performer. Written by an a16z-backed founder.