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High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

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

- 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

Strategize Your Career

By Fran Soto

Actionable strategies to earn more, save time, and learn faster. Join thousands of software engineers leveling up every Sunday

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

Work3 - The Future of Work

By Matteo Cellini and Andy Spence

Weekly news, practical guides and features to prepare for the future of work.

Manager.dev

By Anton

The biggest newsletter written ONLY for Engineering Managers. Practical weekly articles on building and leading a software team.

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

- 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

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez

The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow.

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

Byte-Sized Design

Master system design concepts, engineering fundamentals, and interview basics. Weekly summaries, post-mortems, and advice for 42,000+ engineers.

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

The System Design Newsletter

By Neo Kim

Download my system design playbook on newsletter signup for FREE

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

The Caring Techie Newsletter

By Irina Stanescu

The skills you need to turn your potential into performance in Tech. Lessons from 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

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

Product for Engineers

By PostHog

Helping engineers and founders flex their product muscles

Wes Kao's Newsletter

A bi-weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, 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

The Developing Dev

By Ryan Peterman

Brief 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

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

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.

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

- Nicola Ballotta

The People's Software Engineer

By Bhavana

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

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

The Modern Software Developer

By Richard Donovan

Hybrid Hacker

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