charity.wtf
Charity Majors
CTO & Co-founder, Honeycomb
Blunt, funny essays on observability, on-call culture, and the management/engineering pendulum. Coined much of the modern thinking on the engineer-to-manager transition.
philcalcado.com
Phil Calçado
ex-Director of Engineering, SoundCloud/DigitalOcean
Deep writing on microservices, platform engineering, and scaling engineering organizations.
brooker.co.za
Marc Brooker
VP & Distinguished Engineer, AWS
Rigorous posts on distributed systems, reliability, and the technical judgment expected of senior engineering leaders.
blog.nelhage.com
Nelson Elhage
Distinguished Engineer, ex-Stripe
Made of Bugs. Thoughtful essays on debugging, systems, and senior technical leadership.
architectelevator.com
Gregor Hohpe
Enterprise Strategist, ex-AWS/Google
The Architect Elevator. Connecting the penthouse and the engine room — architecture and organizational leadership.
samnewman.io
Sam Newman
Independent Consultant & Author
Author of Building Microservices. Writing on architecture, delivery, and leading technical change.
aphyr.com
Kyle Kingsbury
Distributed Systems Researcher (Jepsen)
Aphyr. The Jepsen analyses and essays that set the bar for technical rigor in distributed systems.
mattrickard.com
Matt Rickard
Founder & Engineer, ex-Google
Short, frequent essays on engineering, infrastructure, and the strategy of building technical products.
allthingsdistributed.com
Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon
All Things Distributed. Two decades of writing on distributed systems, scale, and the engineering principles behind AWS from Amazon's longtime CTO.
mitchellh.com
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder, HashiCorp
Reflections on founding HashiCorp, returning to hands-on engineering, and building developer tooling like Ghostty.
cra.mr
David Cramer
Co-founder/CTO, Sentry
Writing on engineering culture, open source business, and leading product engineering from a founder-CTO's seat.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher
Principal Architect, Sentry
The Flask creator on language design, architecture, and the technical judgment of a principal-level engineer.
brendangregg.com
Brendan Gregg
Performance Engineer, Intel; ex-Netflix
The definitive resource on systems performance, observability, and the deep technical craft senior leaders rely on.
blog.jessfraz.com
Jessie Frazelle
Co-founder, Oxide Computer
Deep systems writing on containers, hardware, and engineering leadership from a co-founder of Oxide.
steveklabnik.com
Steve Klabnik
Rust core team alumnus
Essays on Rust, documentation, open source governance, and the social side of engineering.
research.swtch.com
Russ Cox
Go Tech Lead, Google
research!rsc. Rigorous deep dives on Go, version control, and the engineering decisions behind major systems.
antirez.com
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Creator of Redis
antirez. Candid reflections on systems programming, open source stewardship, and the craft of building Redis.
daniel.haxx.se
Daniel Stenberg
Lead Developer, curl
Decades of writing on networking, open source maintenance, and sustaining one of the world's most-used libraries.
drewdevault.com
Drew DeVault
Founder, SourceHut
Opinionated essays on open source, sustainable software, and running an engineering-first company.
nickcraver.com
Nick Craver
Architecture Lead, ex-Stack Overflow
Famous deep dives into Stack Overflow's architecture and the engineering decisions that kept it fast and lean.
brandur.org
Brandur Leach
Engineer, Crunchy Data; ex-Stripe
Carefully crafted essays on API design, Postgres, idempotency, and building reliable production systems.
caitiem20.wordpress.com
Caitie McCaffrey
Distributed Systems Engineering Leader
Talks and essays on distributed systems, stateful services, and building and leading platform teams.
peter.bourgon.org
Peter Bourgon
Distributed Systems Engineer (Go)
Influential writing on Go best practices, distributed systems, and pragmatic engineering at scale.
jeffgeerling.com
Jeff Geerling
Engineer & Author, DevOps/Ansible
Hands-on writing on automation, infrastructure, and open source from a prolific engineer-author.
fasterthanli.me
Amos Wenger
Systems Engineer & Writer
Long, immersive deep dives on Rust, systems programming, and how things really work under the hood.
xeiaso.net
Xe Iaso
Engineer, Tigris; ex-Tailscale
Thoughtful, personal writing on infrastructure, developer tooling, and the craft of software.
morling.dev
Gunnar Morling
Software Engineer, Decodable
Writing on data streaming, Java, and open source engineering from a longtime systems engineer.