Reading List (2023)

A collection of interesting articles, blog posts, talks, podcasts, and books that I recommend. Happy reading! 🤓

Technology

1. Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture | Uber Blog
2. Apache Kafka Course for Beginners: Learn Kafka Online | Udemy
3. We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here’s What We Learned | Canva Engineering
4. Kubernetes for Dummies | Dev.to
5. Pre-commit: Don't git hooked! | Thoughtworks
6. The SPACE of Developer Productivity | ACM
7. DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity | ACM
8. 📽️ Design in Practice | Rich Hickey
9. 🎧 Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
10. 🎧 Syntax.fm
11. 🎧 Ladybug Podcast
12. 📥 The Pragmatic Engineer (newsletter)
13. 📖 Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

Incidents and Reliability

1. Plato's Dashboards
2. MTTR is a Misleading Metric—Now What?
3. Increment: On-Call
4. Increment: Reliability

Technical Vision & Strategy

1. How to be a strategic leader
2. Writing our 3-year technical vision | Eventbrite
3. How to Set the Technical Direction for Your Team
4. A survey of engineering strategies
5. Creating and sharing Strategic Architectural Initiatives
6. Getting Commitment
7. 📽️ Technical strategy power chords

Culture

1. Why the status quo is so hard to change in engineering teams
2. Being Glue | No Idea Blog
3. The five keys to a successful Google team | re:Work
4. Beyond Burned Out | HBR
5. Do You Know Burnout When You See It? | HBR
6. Work Is Work | codahale.com
7. Kind.engineering
8. 🎧 Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
9. 🎧 Women at Work | HBR
10. 📖 Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
11. 📖 Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
12. 📖 Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

1. Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team
2. Pay fair | Increment: Teams
3. Global Diversity CFP Day
4. Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome | HBR
5. The Community | The Pasture
6. Increased number of female engineers in managerial roles brings unintended consequences | phys.org
7. How to be an ally to Non-binary folk in tech | Undeveloped Bruce
8. How to make STEM a safe place for trans and non-binary people | TNW
9. The 5 Employee Groups That Can Make or Break Your Recovery From a Recession | Great Place To Work
10. 🎧 We Deserve Better Than “Attagirl” | HBR
11. 🎧 Invisible Women | 99% Invisible
12. 📥 Feminuity Newsletter
13. 📖 Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
14. 📖 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
15. 📖 Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Communication

1. Writing online: Bullet points or prose in executive summaries
2. Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer | The Pragmatic Engineer
3. The Pyramid Principle

Career Growth

1. Guides for reaching Staff-plus engineering roles | StaffEng
2. Staff archetypes | StaffEng
3. On Being A Senior Engineer | Kitchen Soap
4. Things to know about engineering levels | charity.wtf
5. 7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer
6. Software Developer Promotions: Advice to Get to That Next Level | The Pragmatic Engineer
7. Salary negotiation strategies everyone in tech already knows — but you don’t | Candor
8. The Seniority Rolleroaster | The Pragmatic Engineer
9. Get your work recognized: write a brag document | Julia Evans
10. Engineering growth: framework overview | Medium Engineering
11. 📽️ How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work | Carla Harris
12. 📽️ The Reality of Being a Principal Engineer | LeadDev
13. 📖 The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
14. 📖 The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly
15. 📖 Staff Engineer by Will Larson