My Recommendations
I've curated this collection of high-quality resources that have significantly impacted my professional growth. From technical influencers to newsletters, books, and tools - these recommendations can help you stay informed and continue developing your skills in the ever-evolving tech landscape.
Technical Influencers Worth Following
These individuals are making significant impacts in the engineering world. They create high-quality content that's worth following through their websites, talks, social media, and more.
Subbu Allamaraju
Creator of fantastic posts about leadership and understanding yourself better.
Visit WebsiteAlex Ewerlöf
Creates great content for staff-level engineers, especially around SRE and DevOps.
Visit BlogUwe Friedrichsen
Author of great articles about distributed systems and approach to architecture.
Visit WebsiteMartin Fowler
Legend who keeps posting interesting content about architecture and how organizations struggle to build good software.
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These are my highest-rated resources that consistently deliver exceptional value and insights.
CTO Morning Coffee
A 🇵🇱 podcast with an unusual format. Three highly experienced technical leaders - Tomasz Onyszko, Wojciech Ptak, and Sebastian Gębski discuss recent IT revelations at least once per month.
Visit WebsiteThe Pragmatic Engineer
Available in both free and paid versions, I highly recommend the latter. At this point, I think it may be the highest quality newsletter for IT professionals on the web.
Visit WebsiteTLDR
A newsletter mostly focused on industry news, but good programming articles show up as well. In every issue, I find something unique and interesting.
Visit WebsitePointer
Great newsletter combining excellent articles from both technical and leadership worlds.
Visit WebsiteLeadDev
Not an aggregator, but creator of very high quality, unique content. It features famous people from the industry directed towards Technical Leaders and Engineering Managers.
Visit WebsiteThe Engineering Manager
Blog created by James Stanier, who shares some of the most hands-on advice for Engineering Managers with a huge base of high quality articles.
Visit WebsiteIrrational Exuberance
Newsletter of famous Will Larson, magnificent resources for executives, CTOs, directors who lead technical organizations.
Visit WebsiteHarvard Business Review
Most content requires subscription, but sometimes older pieces are accessible to the public and they are simply fantastic. They also produce many books with a famous series about Empathy.
Visit WebsiteFirst Round Review
Quality of content equal to HBR and as actionable as topics from LeadDev. They also group content into series dedicated to specific audiences.
Visit WebsiteNo Kill Switch
Technical/leadership blog of Sebastian Gębski. I admire the short form of the blog posts and the writing style - it's easy to follow and apply in practice.
Visit WebsiteThoughtworks Tech Radar
Fantastic strategic tech discovery and exploration resource. It's great to review it every quarter to know if there are any interesting trends in the industry.
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These resources provide solid value and are worth exploring based on your specific interests and needs.
Level Up
Awesome, free aggregator of the best, recent news in IT created by Pat Kua. I highly agree with his selection of high-quality articles.
Visit WebsiteSoftware Lead Weekly
Similar content to what Level Up brings, with many overlapping articles. Links from Oren Ellenbogen are especially useful for Engineering Managers.
Visit WebsiteTech Lead Digest
Similar content to Level Up, and for the same audience. If you subscribe to both, the majority of links will overlap.
Visit WebsiteProgramming Digest
Purely technical newsletter, focused on new content from the web. Very solid, short, and useful for any language.
Visit WebsiteRands Newsletter
Covers all aspects of working with software engineers, leading them, and teamwork. Content from the past is simply amazing.
Visit WebsiteSenior Engineer Mindset
A newsletter from Swizec Teller, directed mostly towards senior engineers and ICs. Has a lot of great career tips.
Visit WebsiteGiant Robots Weekly
A newsletter from Thoughtbot, famous company using Ruby on Rails. Has a lot of powerful insights and clean code.
Visit WebsiteCTO Craft
Similar content to Software Lead Weekly, although not as good. However, if you're an engineering manager, it may be a really good resource.
Visit WebsiteRuby Weekly
Official Ruby newsletter with a long history. If something important happens in the Ruby community, most commonly it will appear on this list.
Visit WebsiteGartner
One of my more recent resources. Their reports and infographics are outstanding, covering topics which are unique and difficult to find elsewhere.
Visit WebsiteIncrement
Basically a high-quality book or digital magazine about creating software, made as a website, split into multiple articles.
Visit WebsiteGoogle Testing Blog
Small pills of knowledge here and there about testing and code quality.
Visit WebsiteUntools
A collection of different decision-making, system-thinking, and problem-solving tools to use.
Visit WebsiteMDN Web Docs
It's a shame it's not more commonly used by developers. Covers every aspect of web development and is constantly up to date.
Visit WebsiteO'Reilly Online Library
I use it every couple of days to look for solutions to my problems - in books, courses, articles... worth every penny.
Visit WebsiteBuild Your Own X
Step-by-step guides on building your own Docker, OS, Git, and many other famous technologies.
Visit GitHub RepositoryProject Based Learning
Similar concept as above with project-based learning resources.
Visit GitHub RepositoryThePrimeTime
Pure craziness but I like the energy and ThePrimeagen is a really smart and skillful engineer.
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