base on List of books, blogs, newsletters and people! # 100+ Resources to become a great engineering leader **List of books, newsletters, people and more!** Investing in yourself is a great investment anytime! I am sharing with you my personally curated resources to level up and grow to become a great engineering leader in 2024! Topics span from software engineering, system design, data engineering, leadership, management and all the way to product and business. ## How to start? There are a LOT of resources here and your time is very important. I don’t suggest to go and try to study all of the resources at once, I suggest to pick a few resources at a time from specific categories that you need the most. That’s what I do as well. When I need to go more in details in a specific category, I choose the resources and do a deep dive on the specific topics. I also connect with certain individuals, check their posts and / or ask them questions. Important: Before you choose which resources you wish to go more in detail, I suggest to do a retrospective of your current skillset and define where you need to improve. This will ensure you are spending your time on the most impactful things first! ## Get better in System Design **List of books** - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann - System Design Interview by Alex Xu - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler - Understanding Distirbuted Systems by Roberto Vitillo - Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin - Systems Analysis and Design, multiple editions and multiple authors - Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman - Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Neal Ford and Mark Richards - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage and Zhamak Dehghani - Learn System Design in a Hurry, (Helping FAANG+ Software Engineering candidates land their dream job) by Evan King **List of blogs** - [Meta Engineering](https://engineering.fb.com/) - [AWS Architecture](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/) - [The Netflix Tech](https://netflixtechblog.com/) - [Apple Security Tech](https://security.apple.com/blog/) - [Google AI/Research](https://blog.research.google/) - [LinkedIn Engineering](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog) - [Uber Engineering](https://eng.uber.com/) - [Engineering at Quora](https://quoraengineering.quora.com/) - [Pinterest Engineering](https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering) - [Lyft Engineering](https://eng.lyft.com/) - [Twitter Engineering](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering) - [Dropbox Engineering](https://dropbox.tech/) - [Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com/) - [Github Engineering](https://github.blog/category/engineering/) - [Instagram Engineering](https://instagram-engineering.com/) - [Canva Engineering](https://canvatechblog.com/) - [Booking.com Tech](https://blog.booking.com/) - [The Airbnb Tech](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering) - [Stripe Engineering](https://stripe.com/blog/engineering) - [Discord Engineering and Design](https://discord.com/blog) - [Engineering at Microsoft](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/) - [Reddit Engineering](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/) - [Slack Engineering](https://slack.engineering/) - [Asana](https://blog.asana.com/category/eng/) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/tag/engineering) - [CloudFlare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/) - [HelloInterview](https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/system-design) **List of newsletters** - [System Design Newsletter](https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/) by Neo Kim - [Byte-Sized Design](https://bytesizeddesign.substack.com/) by Alex Nguyen - [ByteByteGo](https://blog.bytebytego.com/) by Alex Xu - [System Design Codex](https://newsletter.systemdesigncodex.com/) by Saurabh Dashora - [Hacking Scale](https://newsletter.betterstack.com/) by Richard Oliver Bray **People to follow on LinkedIn** - [Neo Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nk-systemdesign-one/) - [Alex Nguyen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcancode/) - [Alex Xu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexxubyte/) - [Raul Junco](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raul-junco/) - [Saurabh Dashora](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-dashora/) - [Evan King](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-king-40072280/) ## Become a better Leader / Manager **List of books** - The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo - The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins - The Lean Manager by Andrew and Muhammad Wilkerson - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni - The Manager's Path by Camille Fournieri - Leadership in 60 seconds by Omar Halabieh - Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra - The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell - Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson - How to Lead When You're Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins - Think Again by Adam Grant - The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter - The Culture Map by Erin Meyer **List of newsletters** - [Engineering Leadership](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/) by Gregor Ojstersek - [The Caring Techie Newsletter](https://www.thecaringtechie.com/) by Irina Stanescu - [Elevate](https://addyo.substack.com/) by Addy Osmani - [Leading Developers](https://zaidesanton.substack.com/) by Anton Zaides - [The Hybrid Hacker](https://hybridhacker.email/) by Nicola Ballotta - [Tech World With Milan Newsletter](https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/) by Dr Milan Milanovic - [The Engineering Manager](https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/?utm_source=recommendations_page&utm_campaign=1115815) by James Stanier - [Techlead Mentor](https://newsletter.techleadmentor.com/) by Raviraj Achar - [Developing Skills](https://developingskills.substack.com/) by John Crickett - [Refactoring](https://refactoring.fm/) by Luca Rossi - [Level up as a Tech Lead](https://anemarifiser.substack.com/) by Anemari Fiser - [Code.Lead.Succeed](https://darsadowski.substack.com/) by Dariusz Sadowski - [snackableCTO](https://blog.snackablecto.coach/) by Adrian Stanek - [Crafting Tech Teams](https://craftingtechteams.substack.com/) by Denis Čahuk - [The Software Engineering Times](https://thesoftwareengineeringtimes.substack.com/) by Ryan Murphy - [The Visionary CTO](https://blog.visionarycto.com/) by Matt Watson - [Alex Ewerlöf Notes](https://blog.alexewerlof.com/) by Alex Ewerlöf - [Sudo Make Me a CTO](https://makemeacto.substack.com/) by Sergio Visinoni - [Programming Leadership - Marcus Blankenship](https://marcusblankenship.substack.com/) by Marcus Blankenship **People to follow on LinkedIn** - [Gregor Ojstersek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorojstersek/) - [Omar Halabieh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarhalabieh/) - [Nicola Ballotta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaballotta/) - [Irina Stanescu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinastanescu/) - [Luca Rossi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaronin/) - [Addy Osmani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/addyosmani/) - [Anton Zaides](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-zaides/) - [Dr Milan Milanović](https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanmilanovic/) - [Anemari Fiser](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anemari-fiser/) - [Raviraj Achar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravirajachar/) - [Dariusz Sadowski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsadowski/) - [Adrian Stanek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianstanek/) - [Denis Čahuk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniscahuk/) - [Matt Watson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwatsonkc/overlay/about-this-profile/) - [Ryan Murphy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansmurphy1/) - [Kahlil Lechelt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kahlillechelt/) - [James Stanier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jstanier/) - [Alex Ewerlöf](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexewerlof/) - [Itzy Sabo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itzysabo/) - [Daria Rudnik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariarudnik/) - [Tobias Mende](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasmende/) - [Luca Sartoni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasartoni/) - [Doug Howard, P.E.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughowardcoaching/) - [Anco van der Wurff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ancowurff/) - [Sergio Visinoni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/piffio/) ## Become a better Software Engineer **List of books** - The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas - Refactoring by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck - Why Programs Fail by Andreas Zeller - Clean Code by Robert Cecil Martin - Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava - Staff Engineer by Will Larson - Modern Software Engineering by David Farley - Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers - Engineering Software Products by Ian Sommerville - Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug - Code Complete by Steve McConnell - The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly - Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell - Clean Code Cookbook: Recipes to Improve the Design and Quality of your Code by Maximiliano Contieri **List of newsletters** - [Coding Challenges](https://codingchallenges.substack.com/) by John Crickett - [Developing Skills](https://developingskills.substack.com/) by John Crickett - [High Growth Engineer](https://careercutler.substack.com/) by Jordan Cutler - [The Developing Dev](https://www.developing.dev/) by Ryan Peterman - [Level up software engineering](https://levelupsoftwareengineering.substack.com/) by Caleb Mellas - [Engineer’s Codex](https://read.engineerscodex.com/) by Leonardo Creed - [The Modern Software Developer](https://tmsd.substack.com/) by Richard Donovan - [Strategize Your Career](https://strategizeyourcareer.substack.com/) by Fran Soto - [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/) by Gergely Orosz - [Software Design: Tidy First?](https://tidyfirst.substack.com/) by Kent Beck - [Dev Details](https://blog.devdetails.com/) by Mike Thornton - [Front-End Focus](https://frontendfocus.substack.com/) by Mads Brodt - [Craft Better Software](https://craftbettersoftware.com/) by Daniel Moka - [Saiyan Growth Letter](https://www.saiyangrowthletter.com/) by Tiger Abrodi - [The T-Shaped Dev](https://thetshaped.dev/) by Petar Ivanov - [The Polymathic Engineer](https://newsletter.francofernando.com/) by Franco Fernando - [ByteSizedBets](https://bytesizedbets.com/) by Ankur Tyagi - [Hungry Minds 🍔🧠](https://hungryminds.dev) by Alexandre Zajac - [Maximiliano Contieri - Software Design](https://maximilianocontieri.com/newsletter) by Maximiliano Contieri - [Path to Staff](https://pathtostaff.substack.com/) by Sidwyn Koh **People to follow on LinkedIn** - [John Crickett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncrickett/) - [Jordan Cutler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordancutler1/) - [Ryan Peterman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/) - [Caleb Mellas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebmellas/) - [Richard Donovan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-donovan/) - [Daniel Moka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmoka/) - [Tiger Abrodi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiger-abrodi/) - [Francisco Manuel (Fran) Soto Ramírez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fransotodev/) - [Guille Ojeda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guilleojeda/) - [Gergely Orosz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/) - [Kent Beck](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck/) - [Mike Thornton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devdetails/) - [Mads Brodt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madsbrodt/) - [Roman Frolov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/romfrolov/) - [Petar Ivanov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petarivanovv9/) - [Fernando Franco](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-franco-4696708/) - [Ankur Tyagi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theankurtyagi/overlay/about-this-profile/) - [James Willett](http://overlay/about-this-profile/) - [Milan Jovanović](https://www.linkedin.com/in/milan-jovanovic/) - [Eric Roby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/codingwithroby/) - [Alexandre Zajac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-zajac/) - [Zubin Pratap](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zubinpratap/) - [Sam Williams](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-complete-coding/) - [Maximiliano Contieri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcsee/) - [Sidwyn Koh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidwyn/) ## Become product-minded and business-oriented **List of books** - Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell - Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan - Empowered by Marty Cagan - Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products by Martina Lauchengco - Start with Why by Simon Sinek - What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You by Melina Palmer - The Lean Startup by Eric Ries - Transformed by Marty Cagan **List of newsletters** - [Lenny's Newsletter](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/) by Lenny Rachitsky - [The Product Compass](https://www.productcompass.pm?r=1r629c) by Pawel Huryn - [Product Growth](https://www.news.aakashg.com?r=1r629c) by Aakash Gupta - [Wes Kao's Newsletter](https://newsletter.weskao.com?r=1r629c) by Wes kao - [Product Management IRL](https://amycmitchell.substack.com?r=1r629c) by Amy Mitchell - [Leah’s ProducTea](https://www.leahtharin.com/) by Leah Tharin - [Elena's Growth Scoop](https://elenaverna.substack.com/) by Elena Verna - [Untrapping Product Teams](https://dpereira.substack.com/) by David Pereira - [The Looking Glass](https://lg.substack.com/) by Julie Zhuo - [The Beautiful Mess](https://cutlefish.substack.com/) by John Cutler **People to follow on LinkedIn** - [Pawel Huryn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawel-huryn/) - [Aakash Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aagupta/) - [Wes Kao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/weskao/) - [Amy Mitchell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amycmitchell/) - [Leah Tharin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahtharin/) - [Elena Verna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaverna/) - [David Pereira](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidavpereira/) - [Julie Zhuo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-zhuo/) - [Peter Yang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergyang/) - [John Cutler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpcutler/) ## Get better at Data Engineering / Data Science **List of books** - Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Matt Housley - Data Engineering with Python by Paul Crickard - Spark: The Definitive Guide by Matei Zaharia - Big Data: Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems by James Warren - 97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know by Tobias Macey **List of newsletters** - [EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter](https://blog.dataengineer.io/) by Zach Wilson - [SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter](https://seattledataguy.substack.com/) by SeattleDataGuy - [Daily Dose of Data Science](https://www.blog.dailydoseofds.com/) by Avi Chawla - [Data Engineering Central](https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/) by Daniel Beach - [Data Engineering Weekly](https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/) by Ananth Packkildurai - [Joe Reis](https://joereis.substack.com/) by Joe Reis - [Air Around AI](https://airaroundai.substack.com/) by Pradeep Kumar **People to follow on LinkedIn** - [Zach Wilson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eczachly/) - [Benjamin Rogojan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminrogojan/) - [Avi Chawla](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avi-chawla/) - [Daniel Beach](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-beach-6ab8b4132/) - [Ananth P](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ananthdurai/) - [Joe Reis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephreis/) - [Pradeep Kumar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prady00/) Any resources you liked and believe would be a great addition to this list? Feel free to open a PR! I am always in the lookout for some more great books / newsletters / people to follow. ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"7114","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"