Awesome Engineering Blogs, Handbooks and GitHub Repos

A curated list of awesome engineering blogs, handbooks and open source repos from top technology companies

Organizations

Airbnb

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @AirbnbEng

Algolia

• Blog

Amazon

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Apple

• GitHub Page
• Culture: The Original Macintosh - Anecdotes about the development of original Macintosh, and the people who made it

Asana

• Blog | RSS Feed
• Engineering Culture
• GitHub Page
• Publication: wavelength
• Twitter @AsanaEng

ASOS

• Blog | RSS Feed

Atlassian

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Basecamp

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Handbook
• Books
  • Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
  • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
  • REWORK
  • REMOTE
  • Getting Real

BBC

• Blog
• GitHub Page

BOX

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Canva

• Blog

CapitalOne

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @CapitalOneTech

CircleCI

• Blog
• GitHub Page

DBS

• Blog
• RSS Feed

Deliveroo

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @DeliverooEng

Disney Hotstar

• Blog

Dream11

• Blog

Dropbox

• Blog
• GitHub Project

ebay

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Elastic

• Blog | RSS Feed
• Culture
• GitHub Page

Etsy

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @codeascraft

Expedia

• Blog | RSS Feed

Facebook

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @fb_engineering

Figma

• Blog

Flipkart

• Blog

Freshworks

• Blog | RSS Feed

Foursquare

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Grab

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @grabengineering

Grammarly

• Blog
• GitHub Page

GitHub

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @GitHubEng

GitLab

• Blog | RSS Feed
• Handbook

GoDaddy

• Blog

Goibibo

• Blog

Gojek

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @gojektech

Google

• Blog
• Engineering Practices Guide
• GitHub Page
• Google TechDev Guide - Guide to Technical Development and Software Engineering at Google
• re:Work with Google - re:Work is a collection of practices, research, and ideas from Google and others to help you put people first
• Books
  • Software Engineering at Google
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Books
  • How Google Tests Software

GovTech Singapore

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @DeliverooEng

Hashicorp

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Pages

Helpshift

• Blog

HEROKU

• Blog | RSS Feed

IBM

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Instacart

• Blog

Instagram

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Intuit

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Khanacademy

• Blog
• GitHub Page

LinkedIn

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @LinkedInEng

Lyft

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @lyfteng

MadeTech

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Handbook
• Books
  • Building High Performance Agile Teams

Mattermost

• Blog
• Github Page
• Handbook

Mercari

• Blog

Microsoft

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Miro

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Monese

• Blog

Monzo

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @MakingMonzo

Netflix

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Handbook
• Twitter @NetflixEng

Ninja Van

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Paypal

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @PayPalEng

Pinterest

• Blog | RSS Feed
• Twitter @PinterestEng

Postman

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Practo

• Blog

Quora

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Reddit

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Salesforce

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Scribd

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Shopify

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• YouTube
• Twitter @ShopifyEng

Slack

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @SlackEng

Soundcloud

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Spotify

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @SpotifyEng

Stack Overflow

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Stripe

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Magazine: Increment - A quarterly magazine on Software Engineering topics

Swiggy

• Blog

Target

• Blog

TravisCI

• Blog
• GitHub Page

Trivago

• Blog

The Guardian

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Thoughtbot

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Twitter

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @TwitterEng

Uber

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @UberEng

Walmart

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @Walmartlabs

WeWork

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Wingify

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Wix Engineering

• Blog
• GitHub Page
• Twitter @WixEng

Xendit

• Blog | RSS Feed

Yelp

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

Zomato

• Blog

Zozo Technologies

Zozo Technologies is a Japanese tech firm

• Blog | RSS Feed
• GitHub Page

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Topics

Collection of posts from these blogs on below topics:

Engineering Culture

• Airbnb
  • Engineering Culture at Airbnb
• Asana
  • Asana - 10 tips for setting engineering goals from Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey
  • How to make smart compromises when scaling your engineering culture
  • Distributed responsibility: An engineering manager’s perspective
  • The Asana Engineering Values
  • Engineering mentorship at Asana
• Box
  • What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Actually Does
  • What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Actually Does
• Deliveroo
  • What does an Engineering Manager do at Deliveroo?
• Khan Academy
  • Khan Academy’s Engineering Principles
  • Khan Academy’s Engineering Principles Google Doc
  • How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
  • Khan Academy: a new employee’s primer
• Spotify
  • Spotify engineering culture (part 1)
  • Spotify engineering culture (part 2)
• Walmart
  • Building a Platform Team — Laying the Foundations

Engineering Practices

• Algolia
  • Writing usable code
• Asana
  • 7 ways to uplevel your code review skills
• Capital One
  • Developing Maintainable Software: A Checklist for Developers
• Deliveroo
  • Shipping Quickly with a Large Team
  • Tired of waiting for pull request reviews? Play Pull Request Roulette
• Khan Academy
  • Tips for giving your first code reviews
• Scribd
  • Zooming out to Platform Engineering at Scribd
  • What Core Platform does at Scribd
• Shopify
  • Software Release Culture at Shopify
  • Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers
  • Mobile Release Engineering at Scale with Shipit Mobile
  • Pair Programming Explained
  • Introducing the Merge Queue
  • Tell Your Stories: The Benefits of Strategic Engineering Communications
  • How we use git at Shopify ❗
  • Automatic Deployment at Shopify
  • Introducing Shipit
  • How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams
  • Scaling Mobile Development by Treating Apps as Services
• Slack
  • Starting an Initiative
  • How About Code Reviews?
  • On Empathy & Pull Requests

Architecture

• Capital One
  • A Manifesto for Effective Enterprise Architecture
• When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record

Developer Experience & Productivity

• Algolia
  • The Who, What, Where, When, and Whys of Developer Relations
  • The journey to better DX: Create InstantSearch App
  • Designing a developer friendly API client in Scala
• Asana
  • Developer environment: Achieving reliability by making it fast to reset
• Capital One
  • Trust is the Most Important Component of Your Developer Platform
  • API Hospitality: Welcoming Developers with Documentation
  • Developer Engagement: Braving the Wilds
• Shopify
  • Developer Onboarding at Shopify
  • Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity
  • Developer Talks: How the Command Line Can Empower You (Webinar)
• Slack
  • The Joy of Internal Tools
  • Development Environments at Slack
• Spotify
  • How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
  • How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams
  • How We Use Backstage at Spotify
  • What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
  • Going Into Deep Space – Creating the Right Environment for Your Open Space

Open Source

• Algolia
  • Supporting the Open Source Software that Supports our Success
  • Start Your Open Source Career
• Capital One
  • Adopting an Enterprise Open Source Mindset
  • Nuts & Bolts of Launching an Open Source Project
  • Open Source in a Regulated Environment

Hiring

• Asana
  • Hiring engineering managers: Crafting an interview process to build the best team
  • The Asana Engineering Interview Guide
• Deliveroo
  • How do we interview engineers at Deliveroo?
• Shopify
  • Attracting Local Talent And Building Mobile Apps: A Developer Hiring Initiative
  • Accelerating Android Talent Through Community Bootcamps
• Slack
  • Refactoring Backend Engineering Hiring at Slack

Working Remote

• Asana
  • How to thrive as an intern while working remotely
• Capital One
  • Getting Started as a Junior Engineer While Social Distancing
• Khan Academy
  • Working Remotely
• Scribd
  • Guidelines and expectations for working remotely
• Shopify
  • Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team

Product Engineering

• Asana
  • The Timeline of a Feature Launch
  • How product managers and engineers at Asana develop great relationships
  • What Product Managers do at Asana: An intern’s perspective
  • Product Engineering: Reimagining role boundaries at Asana
• Atlassian
  • What does a Product Growth engineer work on?
• Grammarly
  • How to Leverage a Product Mindset for a Successful Engineering Career
  • What It’s Like to Be an Engineering Manager on a Product-Oriented Team

Teams & Colloboration

• Airbnb
  • Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Team
• Asana
  • Asana - Meet our Mobile Engineering team
  • What does a day of collaborating with Asana look like?
  • One second a day: My first 30 days at Asana
  • Leading cross-team changes
• Deliveroo
  • What Makes a Good (Tech) Team Great
• Spotify
  • Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve
  • How we do large scale retrospectives
• Walmart
  • 5 Principles Guaranteed to Help Build a Strong Team Culture

Career, Mentoring & Coaching

• Capital One
  • Learning How to Learn- the Secret to Succeeding as a Software Engineer
  • So You’re a Developer, Where Does Your Career Go Next?
  • How I Became a Better Front-End Developer
  • How a Growth Mindset Empowers Your Learners, Teachers and Leaders
  • The Front-End Developer — Full-Stack Developer Paradox
  • How to Earn Cred and Establish Yourself as a Junior Software Engineer
• Khan Academy
  • Engineering career development at Khan Academy
  • Engineering career development at Khan Academy - Google Doc
• Shopify
  • Technical Mentorship Reimagined: Time-bound and No Awkward Asks Necessary
  • Dev Degree - A Big Bet on Software Education
• Slack
  • Defining a career path for Developer Relations
  • Technical Leadership: Getting Started
  • How Slack Supports Junior Engineers
  • Mentorship at Slack
• Spotify
  • To Coach or Not to Coach?
  • Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps
  • Spotify Technology Career Steps
  • Building a technical career path at Spotify
  • Personal development at Spotify
  • How it is to be an Agile Coach intern at Spotify

Internship

• Airbnb
  • Interning with the Airbnb Payments Team
• Asana
  • The Asana Engineering Guide to Intern Mentorship
  • Product Engineering internships are great!
  • The things we built: Meet our 2018 summer intern class
  • What we built this summer: Meet our 2017 intern class
  • Advice to engineering new grads: Don’t start your career at just any company
  • Asana’s summer internship program: from our 2015 intern class
  • Asana’s 2014 internship program
• Box
  • Intern Interviewing Re-Invented
• Deliveroo
  • Interning at Deliveroo
• Khan Academy
  • Interning at Khan Academy: from student to intern
  • Stories from our latest intern class
  • Receiving feedback as an intern at Khan Academy
• Shopify
  • Shopify Interns Share Their Tips for Success
  • How We Enable Our Interns to Make an Impact
  • How We Support Intern Growth through Challenge and Practice
• Slack
  • The Slack Internship
  • How to Have an Impactful Internship… Virtually
  • Interning on Slack’s Product Security Team

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Book Recommendations

• Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier
• 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know by Camille Fournier
• The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
• The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo

Resources

For spcific techology and practices from these organizations follow below repos:

• How they practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• How they use AWS
• How they test
• How they practice DevOps

Credits

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• Docup to create the website inspired from howtheytest-jp

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