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Recommended by Irina Stanescu

In ChaiTime, Chaitali writes about lessons learned from her accelerated career journey. She shares stories about how she juggles the various aspects of her personal and professional life. She also connects her reading/listening to practical career advice.

The Software Engineer Weekly

By Kevin Naughton Jr.

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

Excellent insights and advice for engineers wishing to grow their career in Tech. Must read!

- Irina Stanescu

Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

By Caleb Mellas

Join 30,000+ engineers learning how to level up in their career. Everything you need to grow to senior engineer, tech lead and beyond in tech skills, communication, and leadership.

Caleb's newsletter is easy to read and packed with practical information about how to grow your career! Highly recommend!

- Irina Stanescu

Engineer’s Codex

By Engineer's Codex

Real-world software engineering explained simply.

Level up as a Tech Lead

By Anemari Fiser

This newsletter covers the "lead" part of the Tech Lead role by deep diving into the soft skills required to be successful in this role.

DataEngineer.io Newsletter

By Zach Wilson

A newsletter dedicated to talking about data engineering and technology trends

If you're looking to learn data engineering, Zach is your guy. Highly recommend! (also check out his youtube!)

- Irina Stanescu

Level Up by Ethan Evans

Level Up is your source for executive insights, high performance habits, and specific career growth actions by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans.

Ethan is a former Amazon VP sharing excellent leadership and career growth advice from his vast experience in the industry. Highly recommend his newsletter!

- Irina Stanescu

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

Byte-Sized Design

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

The AiEdge Newsletter

By 👋 Damien

A newsletter for continuous learning about Machine Learning applications, Machine Learning System Design, MLOps, the latest techniques and news. Subscribe and receive a free Machine Learning book PDF!

Tech World With Milan Newsletter

By Dr Milan Milanovic

Insights into a beautiful world of Software Engineering, simplified. Join his community of 350,000+ readers across different mediums.

Milan’s newsletter teaches you everything from inter-personal skills, critical thinking, and collaboration to software architecture, cloud computing and DevOps. Great for building both technical and non-technical skills!

- Irina Stanescu

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

It's obvious from his writing that Gregor cares a great deal about good leadership, helping people be better managers and grow their careers. Highly recommend this newsletter to anyone wanting to become a better leader!

- Irina Stanescu

ByteByteGo Newsletter

By Alex Xu

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 1,000,000 friendly readers.

The Pragmatic Engineer

By Gergely Orosz

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

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.

Wes is an excellent story teller and her insights are pure gold! Not only she provides excellent advice, but she backs it up with tons of examples. Highly recommend subscribing!

- Irina Stanescu

Software Design: Tidy First?

By Kent Beck

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

Refactoring

By Luca Rossi

Practical advice on writing great software and working well with humans. Read weekly by 150,000+ engineers in startups and big tech.

SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter

Learn About End-To-End Data Flows (Data Engineering, MLOps, and Data Science)

Ben's content is top-notch for much more than data engineers!! I enjoy learning about new data tools and technology from him, but also his very sound career growth advice. Highly recommend this newsletter!

- Irina Stanescu