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The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez Ibar

The VC Corner delivers quick and insightful updates about the venture capital landscape every week

The People's Software Engineer

By Bhavana

A newsletter where I share my experiences and advice from my career journey to Principal Engineer.

Strategize Your Career

By Fran Soto

Every Sunday, read new career growth strategies for software engineers. Written by an SDE2 at Amazon.

If you are an Engineer looking to grow in your career, this newsletter has a ton of actionable content to put into practice.

- Nicola Ballotta

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.

Actionable advice on being a Tech Lead from Raviraj, Staff Engineer at Meta. A must-read!

- Nicola Ballotta

Leading Developers

By Anton

Join 13,700+ software leaders for free weekly articles on managing and growing a development team!

Anton does a great job of sharing leadership tips and simplifying complex concepts with visuals.

- Nicola Ballotta

Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

By Caleb Mellas

Every other Wednesday, join 27,000+ engineers learning how to level up in their career. Everything you need to grow to senior engineer, tech lead and beyond.

If you want to progress in your career as a software engineer or engineering leader, you should read this newsletter!

- Nicola Ballotta

The Modern Software Developer

By Richard Donovan

Developing Skills

By John Crickett

Helping software engineers to level up their leadership and soft skills.

If you are a Developer and you want to level-up, you should subscribe to this newsletter!

- Nicola Ballotta

System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

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

How have big tech companies leveraged their resources to scale to millions or even billions of users? Join Neo and his newsletter to discover their secrets!

- Nicola Ballotta

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

Top-notch, actionable tips on how to grow your career as an engineer.

- Nicola Ballotta

Byte-Sized Design

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

If you want to grasp System Design concepts easily, this is your go-to newsletter. Alex excels at simplifying intricate subjects into bite-sized, actionable insights.

- Nicola Ballotta

Javarevisited Newsletter

By javinpaul

Java, Programming, and System Design interview questions and articles delivered twice a week to 24,000+ smart people.

The Developing Dev

By Ryan Peterman

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

In his bite-sized articles, each just 5 minutes long, Ryan, a Staff Engineer at Instagram, delivers a wealth of information on career advice and how to advance in an engineering role.

- Nicola Ballotta

Product for Engineers

By PostHog

Helping engineers and founders flex their product muscles

Tech World With Milan Newsletter

By Dr Milan Milanovic

Insights into a beautiful world of Software Engineering simplified. Join readers from Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and more.

Milan excels in simplifying complex software engineering concepts through clear writing and illustrations. He also delves into leadership and other topics. Highly recommended!

- Nicola Ballotta

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

A great newsletter that provides you with incredibly useful and easily consumable insights on how to grow as a tech leader.

- Nicola Ballotta

Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth

Alex shares his observations and learnings on Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, and Growth together with his book on the topic.

- Nicola Ballotta

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.

One of the best newsletters about System Design I know.

- Nicola Ballotta

The Caring Techie Newsletter

By Irina Stanescu

Most people know the potential they carry, but few reach it. This newsletter teaches you how. Lessons from my experience at Google, Uber, and startups.

A great newsletter about leadership, tech culture, career growth, and more. Irina does a fantastic job of explaining complex concepts, drawing from her extensive experience.

- Nicola Ballotta

Wes Kao's Newsletter

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

Wes does a great job of writing about many different topics, such as management, giving feedback, and marketing. She draws directly from her 15 years of experience as a VC-backed founder.

- Nicola Ballotta

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