# Best engineering blogs to follow I asked software engineers on X to name the tech blogs they keep going back to, and their replies make up 161 of the 211 blogs in this directory; the other 50 are picks I added to cover AI engineering and more of the company engineering blogs. Every one of them is listed below with a one-line description, and you can search the list or filter it by topic. Last updated 3 October 2026 Search TopicAll topicsAI and machine learning (38)Compilers and languages (70)Databases and storage (34)Distributed systems (26)Engineering practice (18)Formal methods and theory (40)Graphics and games (18)Networking and infrastructure (39)Operating systems and hardware (24)Performance and low-level (39)Security and cryptography (13)Web and mobile (7) TypeAll typesAggregator (3)Company (39)Personal (165)Substack (4) SortMost mentionedA to Z Showing 211 of 211 blogs Clear filters BlogWhat it coversTopicsRecommended by - [Dan Luu](https://danluu.com/) Personal · Named by 3 people Deep dives on performance, hardware and engineering culture - Performance and low-level - Operating systems and hardware - Engineering practice Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), Vivek Nathani, Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/) Company · Named by 2 people Networking, security, performance and outage post-mortems from Cloudflare - Performance and low-level - Security and cryptography - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Vivek Nathani, Shreyas P - [Eli Bendersky](https://eli.thegreenplace.net/) Personal · Named by 2 people Go, compilers, LLVM, Python and maths - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/) Personal · Named by 2 people Linux, networking, debugging and git explained simply - Operating systems and hardware - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Vivek Nathani, Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [PlanetScale](https://planetscale.com/blog) Company · Named by 2 people Databases at scale: MySQL/Vitess, Postgres, storage and performance - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26) - [The Consensus (Phil Eaton)](https://theconsensus.dev/) Aggregator · Named by 2 people Curated hub for software-infrastructure articles, jobs and funding news; hosts the Required Reading list - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Adam Marcus](https://blog.marcua.net/) Personal Data systems, startups and engineering management - Databases and storage - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Adrian Colyer](https://blog.acolyer.org/) Personal The Morning Paper: summaries of influential computer science papers - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Adrian Sampson](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/) Personal Computer architecture, compilers and programming languages research - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alan Wolfe](https://blog.demofox.org/) Personal Graphics, game-dev maths, sampling and noise - Graphics and games - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Aleksey Charapko](https://charap.co/) Personal Distributed systems research and paper reading-group notes - Distributed systems - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Aleksey Kladov](https://matklad.github.io/) Personal Rust, Zig, rust-analyzer, TigerBeetle and software engineering practice - Compilers and languages - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alex Chan](https://alexwlchan.net/) Personal Digital preservation, Python and web craft - Web and mobile Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alex Miller](https://transactional.blog/) Personal Databases, distributed transactions and storage - Databases and storage - Distributed systems Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alisa Sireneva](https://purplesyringa.moe/) Personal Low-level optimisation, Rust and performance puzzles - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alperen Keleş](https://alperenkeles.com/) Personal Property-based testing, programming languages and verification - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Alyssa Rosenzweig](https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/) Personal Open-source GPU drivers and reverse engineering (Panfrost, Asahi) - Graphics and games - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Amit Patel](https://www.redblobgames.com/) Personal Red Blob Games: interactive tutorials on game algorithms (pathfinding, hex grids) - Graphics and games - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Amos Wenger](https://fasterthanli.me/) Personal Long-form Rust and systems deep dives - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andreas Kling](https://awesomekling.github.io/) Personal Building SerenityOS and the Ladybird browser - Operating systems and hardware - Web and mobile Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andrej Bauer](https://math.andrej.com/) Personal Mathematics and Computation: type theory, logic and programming languages - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andrew Bancroft](https://andrewcbancroft.com/) Personal Swift and iOS development tutorials - Compilers and languages - Web and mobile Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Andrew Gallant](https://burntsushi.net/) Personal Rust, regex engines, ripgrep and text search - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andrew Helwer](https://ahelwer.ca/) Personal Formal methods, TLA+ and quantum computing - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andrew Huang](https://www.bunniestudios.com/) Personal Hardware hacking, open hardware and supply chains - Security and cryptography - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andrew Kelley](https://andrewkelley.me/) Personal Zig creator on language and toolchain design - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andy Grove](https://andygrove.io/) Personal Query engines, Apache Arrow and DataFusion, Rust - Databases and storage - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Andy Wingo](https://wingolog.org/) Personal Compilers, garbage collection, JavaScript engines and WebAssembly - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Anil Madhavapeddy](https://anil.recoil.org/) Personal OCaml, unikernels and systems research - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Aras Pranckevičius](https://aras-p.info/) Personal Graphics, Unity and Blender internals, compression and performance - Performance and low-level - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Arseny Kapoulkine](https://zeux.io/) Personal Graphics, mesh optimisation, Luau and performance engineering - Performance and low-level - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Artem Krylysov](https://artem.krylysov.com/) Personal Storage engines, databases and Go - Databases and storage - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Austin Henley](https://austinhenley.com/) Personal Developer tools, programming languages and AI for coding - Compilers and languages - AI and machine learning Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Avery Pennarun](https://apenwarr.ca/log/) Personal Networking, systems design and how tech organisations work - Networking and infrastructure - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/) Personal Interactive visual explainers of physics and engineering - Graphics and games - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Bartosz Milewski](https://bartoszmilewski.com/) Personal Category theory for programmers, Haskell and C++ - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ben Hoyt](https://benhoyt.com/) Personal Go, Python, AWK and practical performance - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ben Joffe](https://www.benjoffe.com/) Personal Fast date algorithms and low-level optimisation - Performance and low-level - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Bert Hubert](https://berthub.eu/) Personal DNS, networking, tech policy and biology explained for engineers - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [bits & pages (Almog Gavra)](https://www.bitsxpages.com/) Personal Database internals from first principles: LSM trees, SSTs, object storage - Databases and storage Recommended by Vivek Nathani - [Bob Nystrom](https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/) Personal Language design, interpreters and game programming - Compilers and languages - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Brandur Leach](https://brandur.org/) Personal Postgres, API design and Go - Databases and storage - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Brendan Gregg](https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html) Personal Systems performance, eBPF and flame graphs - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Bruce Dawson](https://randomascii.wordpress.com/) Personal Windows performance investigations, debugging and floating point - Performance and low-level - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Chen Hui Jing](https://chenhuijing.com/blog/) Personal CSS, web layout and typography deep dives - Web and mobile Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Chris Fallin](https://cfallin.org/) Personal Compilers, Cranelift and WebAssembly runtimes - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Chris Siebenmann](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/) Personal Daily Unix system-administration notes - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Chris Wellons](https://nullprogram.com/) Personal C programming, systems techniques and Emacs - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Cindy Sridharan](https://medium.com/@copyconstruct) Personal Distributed systems, observability and testing in production - Distributed systems - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [ClickHouse Blog](https://clickhouse.com/blog) Company OLAP database internals, query performance and analytics engineering - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Vivek Nathani - [Cliff Biffle](https://cliffle.com/) Personal Embedded Rust and OS design (Hubris) - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Colin Percival](https://www.daemonology.net/) Personal FreeBSD, Tarsnap, cryptography and security - Security and cryptography - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [D. J. Bernstein](https://blog.cr.yp.to/) Personal Cryptography and security - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Daniel Abadi](https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/) Personal DBMS Musings: database systems research - Databases and storage - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Daniel Balsom](https://martypc.blogspot.com/) Personal Cycle-accurate PC emulation (MartyPC) and the 8088 - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Daniel Lemire](https://lemire.me/blog/) Personal Software performance, SIMD and algorithms - Performance and low-level - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Daniel Stenberg](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog) Personal curl, HTTP and maintaining open source - Networking and infrastructure - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [David Buchanan](https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/) Personal Reverse engineering, security and clever hacks - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [David MacIver](https://drmaciver.com/) Personal Property-based testing (Hypothesis) and software correctness - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Denis Bakhvalov](https://easyperf.net/) Personal CPU performance analysis and tuning - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Erik Bernhardsson](https://erikbern.com/) Personal Data, ML infrastructure, software engineering and startups - Networking and infrastructure - AI and machine learning - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Erin Catto](https://box2d.org/) Personal Game physics and the Box2D engine - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Evan Jones](https://www.evanjones.ca/) Personal Distributed systems, databases and low-level performance - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Evan Ovadia](https://verdagon.dev/) Personal Memory safety and language design (Vale) - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Fabian Giesen](https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/) Personal Graphics, compression, CPU architecture and low-level optimisation - Performance and low-level - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Fabien Sanglard](https://fabiensanglard.net/) Personal Game-engine source code reviews and retro hardware - Graphics and games - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Fangrui Song](https://maskray.me/) Personal Linkers, LLVM, ELF and toolchains - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Fernando Borretti](https://borretti.me/) Personal Language design, type systems (Austral) and essays - Compilers and languages - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Filippo Valsorda](https://words.filippo.io/) Personal Cryptography engineering, Go crypto and open-source maintenance - Compilers and languages - Security and cryptography - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Fred Hebert](https://ferd.ca/) Personal Erlang, resilience engineering and incidents - Distributed systems - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [gingerBill (Bill Hall)](https://www.gingerbill.org/) Personal Odin language creator on language design and memory allocation - Compilers and languages Recommended by localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26) - [Gunnar Morling](https://www.morling.dev/) Personal Java, change data capture, Kafka and Flink - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Hillel Wayne](https://www.hillelwayne.com/) Personal Formal methods, TLA+ and software engineering history - Formal methods and theory - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Hubert Lubaczewski](https://www.depesz.com/) Personal PostgreSQL features, query plans and tips - Databases and storage Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Huon Wilson](https://huonw.github.io/) Personal Rust internals, performance and build tooling - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Ian Lance Taylor](https://www.airs.com/blog/) Personal Linkers, GCC and Go - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Jack Vanlightly](https://jack-vanlightly.com/) Personal Distributed systems, streaming, table formats and formal verification - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Jamie Brandon](https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/) Personal Databases, query languages and systems programming - Databases and storage - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [JeanHeyd Meneide](https://thephd.dev/) Personal C and C++ standardisation - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Jeremy Kun](https://www.jeremykun.com/) Personal Math ∩ Programming: maths for programmers, homomorphic encryption - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Joe Hellerstein](https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/) Personal Databases and distributed systems research - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [John Hable](https://filmicworlds.com/) Personal Rendering, tone mapping and graphics - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [John Regehr](https://john.regehr.org/) Personal Compilers, undefined behaviour and testing - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Jon Sterling](https://www.jonmsterling.com/jonmsterling/) Personal Type theory and mathematics - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Julian Hyde](https://blog.hydromatic.net/) Personal SQL, query optimisation and Apache Calcite - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Julio Merino](https://jmmv.dev/) Personal Build systems, BSD, Rust and software history - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Justin Jaffray](https://buttondown.com/jaffray/) Personal NULL BITMAP newsletter: databases and query optimisers - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Justine Tunney](https://justine.lol/) Personal Portable executables, Cosmopolitan libc and low-level hacks - Performance and low-level - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Jynn Nelson](https://jyn.dev/) Personal Rust compiler, build systems and tooling - Compilers and languages - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Kai Hendry](https://hendry.iki.fi/) Personal Short notes on web, AWS, Linux and Go tooling - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Ken Shirriff](https://www.righto.com/) Personal Reverse-engineering chips and vintage computers - Security and cryptography - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Kostas Anagnostou](https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/) Personal Real-time rendering and GPU techniques - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Laurence Tratt](https://tratt.net/) Personal Language implementation, JIT VMs and parsing - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Lawrence Jones](https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/) Personal Postgres, reliability and building AI products - Databases and storage - Networking and infrastructure - AI and machine learning Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Lindsey Kuper](https://decomposition.al/) Personal Distributed systems and programming languages research - Distributed systems - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Lorin Hochstein](https://surfingcomplexity.blog/) Personal Resilience engineering, incidents and complex systems - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Malte Skarupke](https://probablydance.com/) Personal C++, hash tables, algorithms and performance - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Marc Brooker](https://brooker.co.za/blog/) Personal Distributed systems, databases and formal methods at AWS - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Mark Callaghan](https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/) Personal MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB performance benchmarks - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Martin Kleppmann](https://martin.kleppmann.com/) Personal Distributed systems, CRDTs and local-first software - Distributed systems Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Matt Godbolt](https://xania.org/) Personal Compilers, C++, Compiler Explorer and emulation - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Matt Keeter](https://www.mattkeeter.com/) Personal CAD kernels, graphics, Rust and embedded projects - Compilers and languages - Graphics and games - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Matt Pettineo](https://therealmjp.github.io/) Personal Real-time rendering and DirectX - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Matthew Green](https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/) Personal Cryptography engineering explained - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Max Bernstein](https://bernsteinbear.com/) Personal Compilers, runtimes, JITs and interpreters - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert](https://pointersgonewild.com/) Personal JIT compilers and language design - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Micah Lerner](https://newsletter.micahlerner.com/) Personal Summaries of systems research papers - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Michael Arntzenius](https://www.rntz.net/) Personal Programming language theory, Datalog and type theory - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Michael Stapelberg](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/) Personal Go, Linux, networking and hardware projects - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Mitchell Hashimoto](https://mitchellh.com/) Personal Ghostty, Zig, infrastructure tooling and AI-assisted development - Compilers and languages - Networking and infrastructure - AI and machine learning Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Murat Demirbas](https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/) Personal Distributed systems paper reviews, TLA+ and databases - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nelson Elhage](https://nelhage.com/) Personal Systems, performance, debugging and engineering thinking - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nicholas Carlini](https://nicholas.carlini.com/) Personal Machine learning security, LLMs and playful hacks - Security and cryptography - AI and machine learning Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nicholas Matsakis](https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/) Personal Rust language design - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nick Fitzgerald](https://fitzgen.com/) Personal WebAssembly, Wasmtime, Rust and compilers - Compilers and languages - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nikita Lisitsa](https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/) Personal Graphics, game development and physics simulation - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Nikita Prokopov](https://tonsky.me/) Personal UI design, Clojure, typography and software quality - Compilers and languages - Web and mobile Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Oleg Kiselyov](https://okmij.org/ftp/) Personal Functional programming, type systems and continuations - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Oliver Medhurst](https://honk.foo/) Personal JavaScript engines and compilers - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Oren Eini](https://ayende.com/) Personal Database internals (RavenDB) and .NET performance - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Orson Peters](https://orlp.net/) Personal Algorithms, sorting, hashing and Rust - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Paul Calvano](https://paulcalvano.com/) Personal Web performance and HTTP analysis - Performance and low-level - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Paul Khuong](https://pvk.ca/) Personal Low-level performance, data structures and optimisation - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Pekka Väänänen](https://30fps.net/) Personal Graphics programming and the demoscene - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Peter Eisentraut](https://peter.eisentraut.org/) Personal PostgreSQL development - Databases and storage Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Phil Eaton](https://eatonphil.com/) Personal Databases, distributed systems and compilers - Databases and storage - Distributed systems - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Philip Zucker](https://www.philipzucker.com/) Personal Formal methods, SMT solvers, e-graphs and theorem proving - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Pinterest Engineering](https://medium.com/@PinterestEng) Company Large-scale infra, data, ML and recommendation systems at Pinterest - AI and machine learning Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Rachel Kroll](https://rachelbythebay.com/) Personal Sysadmin war stories, debugging and reliability - Operating systems and hardware - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ralf Jung](https://www.ralfj.de/blog/) Personal Rust semantics, unsafe code and Miri - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Richard Startin](https://richardstartin.github.io/) Personal Java and JVM performance, vectorisation and profiling - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Robert O'Callahan](https://robert.ocallahan.org/) Personal Record-and-replay debugging (rr), browsers and Rust - Compilers and languages - Web and mobile Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Russ Cox](https://research.swtch.com/) Personal Go, regular expressions, dependency management and supply chain - Compilers and languages - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ryan Fleury](https://www.rfleury.com/) Personal Systems and UI programming, memory arenas, debugger design - Performance and low-level Recommended by localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26) - [Sam Rose](https://samwho.dev/) Personal Interactive visual explainers of computing concepts - Networking and infrastructure - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Sam Saffron](https://samsaffron.com/) Personal Discourse co-founder on Ruby performance, running Discourse and AI tooling - Performance and low-level - AI and machine learning Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Sascha Willems](https://www.saschawillems.de/) Personal Vulkan graphics API - Graphics and games Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Sean Goedecke](https://www.seangoedecke.com/) Personal Working effectively as an engineer in big tech, plus LLM/AI commentary - AI and machine learning - Engineering practice Recommended by Vivek Nathani - [Serge Zaitsev](https://zserge.com/) Personal Minimal software: tiny compilers, tools and libraries - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Seth Larson](https://sethmlarson.dev/) Personal Python security and open-source supply chain - Security and cryptography Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Simon Eskildsen](https://sirupsen.com/) Personal Napkin maths, infrastructure and performance - Performance and low-level - Networking and infrastructure - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Simon Tatham](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/) Personal Algorithms, puzzles and software essays from PuTTY's author - Formal methods and theory - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Skyscanner Engineering](https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng) Company How Skyscanner builds and runs its travel-search platform - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Slava Egorov](https://mrale.ph/) Personal VM internals (V8, Dart), JITs and JavaScript performance - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Stefan Marr](https://stefan-marr.de/) Personal Language implementation, interpreters and benchmarking - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Stephen Hill](https://blog.selfshadow.com/) Personal Physically based rendering and graphics research round-ups - Graphics and games - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Steve Klabnik](https://steveklabnik.com/) Personal Rust, software and language communities - Compilers and languages - Engineering practice Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Sunny Young de la Sota](https://mcyoung.xyz/) Personal Rust, C++, compilers, linkers and Protobuf internals - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Tailscale Blog](https://tailscale.com/blog) Company Networking, WireGuard, NAT traversal and infrastructure design - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Vivek Nathani - [Tanel Poder](https://tanelpoder.com/) Personal Linux and database performance troubleshooting - Databases and storage - Performance and low-level - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ted Unangst](https://flak.tedunangst.com/) Personal OpenBSD, security and C - Compilers and languages - Security and cryptography - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Thomas Gazagnaire](https://gazagnaire.org/) Personal OCaml and MirageOS - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Thomas Leonard](https://roscidus.com/) Personal OCaml, concurrency (Eio) and secure systems - Compilers and languages Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Tom Murphy VII](https://tom7.org/) Personal Whimsical computer science research projects - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Travis Downs](https://travisdowns.github.io/) Personal x86 micro-architecture and performance - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Tristan Hume](https://thume.ca/) Personal Systems, tracing, performance and hardware projects - Performance and low-level - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Varun Upadhyay](https://distributed-computing-musings.com/) Personal Distributed computing paper notes and databases - Databases and storage - Distributed systems Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Vu Trinh (vutr)](https://substack.com/@vutr) Substack Data-engineering system internals explained (warehouses, lakehouses, streaming) - Databases and storage - Distributed systems Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet) - [Werner Vogels](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/) Personal All Things Distributed: cloud architecture from Amazon's CTO - Distributed systems Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Wojciech Muła](https://0x80.pl/) Personal SIMD and low-level optimisation - Performance and low-level Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Xe Iaso](https://xeiaso.net/) Personal Linux, NixOS, infrastructure and Go - Compilers and languages - Operating systems and hardware - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading) - [Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)](https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/) Substack LLM research explained with code - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Airbnb Engineering](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering) Company Data, ML and platform engineering - AI and machine learning - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [Amazon Builders' Library](https://builder.aws.com/learn/topics/builders-library) Company How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems - Distributed systems - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [Amazon Science](https://www.amazon.science/blog) Company Applied research at Amazon - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Andrej Karpathy](https://karpathy.github.io/) Personal Neural networks explained from first principles - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Anthropic Engineering](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering) Company Building agents, context engineering and tool design - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [AWS Architecture Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/) Company Reference architectures on AWS - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Baseten AI Engineering](https://www.baseten.co/blog/category/ai-engineering/) Company Building and serving AI applications - AI and machine learning - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [Baseten Model Performance](https://www.baseten.co/blog/category/model-performance/) Company Inference speed and optimisation - AI and machine learning - Performance and low-level Recommended by Editor's pick - [Chip Huyen](https://huyenchip.com/) Personal ML systems design and AI engineering - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Chris Olah](https://colah.github.io/) Personal Neural network interpretability and visual explanations - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Chroma Research](https://www.trychroma.com/research) Company Retrieval and context-window research - AI and machine learning - Databases and storage Recommended by Editor's pick - [Cognition Research](https://cognition.com/research) Company Coding-agent research and technical reports - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Cursor Research](https://cursor.com/blog/topic/research) Company Coding-agent internals and Git at scale - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [DAIR.AI AI Papers of the Week](https://github.com/dair-ai/AI-Papers-of-the-Week) Aggregator Weekly summaries of notable AI research papers - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Datadog Engineering](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/) Company Observability systems and incident reviews - Networking and infrastructure - Performance and low-level Recommended by Editor's pick - [Discord Engineering](https://discord.com/category/engineering) Company Real-time systems and storage migrations - Distributed systems - Databases and storage Recommended by Editor's pick - [Distill](https://distill.pub/) Aggregator Interactive machine learning explanations (archive, no longer publishing) - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Drew Breunig](https://www.dbreunig.com/) Personal Context engineering and how contexts fail - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Dropbox Tech](https://dropbox.tech/) Company Storage, sync and infrastructure - Databases and storage - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [Eugene Yan](https://eugeneyan.com/) Personal Applied LLM systems, evals and recommender systems - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Figma Engineering](https://www.figma.com/blog/engineering/) Company Multiplayer editing and database scaling - Databases and storage - Web and mobile Recommended by Editor's pick - [Flipkart Tech](https://blog.flipkart.tech/) Company E-commerce infrastructure in India - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Fly.io](https://fly.io/blog/) Company Networking, containers and running a cloud - Networking and infrastructure - Operating systems and hardware Recommended by Editor's pick - [GitHub Engineering](https://github.blog/engineering/) Company Running GitHub, MySQL and Git internals - Networking and infrastructure - Databases and storage Recommended by Editor's pick - [Google Research](https://research.google/blog/) Company Research across machine learning and systems - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Google Testing Blog](https://testing.googleblog.com/) Company Software testing practice at Google - Engineering practice Recommended by Editor's pick - [Hamel Husain](https://hamel.dev/) Personal LLM evals and shipping AI products - AI and machine learning - Engineering practice Recommended by Editor's pick - [Hugging Face Research](https://huggingface.co/blog?tag=research) Company Open-model research and paper reproductions - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)](https://www.interconnects.ai/) Substack Open models, reinforcement learning and post-training - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Jane Street](https://blog.janestreet.com/) Company OCaml and trading systems - Compilers and languages - Performance and low-level Recommended by Editor's pick - [Jason Liu](https://jxnl.co/) Personal Retrieval-augmented generation and structured outputs - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Jay Alammar](https://jalammar.github.io/) Personal Visual explanations of transformers and language models - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/) Substack AI engineering interviews and essays - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Lilian Weng](https://lilianweng.github.io/) Personal Long survey posts on agents, prompting and model internals - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Meta Engineering](https://engineering.fb.com/) Company Infrastructure, data and ML at Meta scale - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Netflix TechBlog](https://netflixtechblog.com/) Company Streaming, data platform and autoscaling at Netflix - Distributed systems - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [OpenAI Engineering](https://openai.com/news/engineering/) Company Scaling storage and inference behind ChatGPT - AI and machine learning - Networking and infrastructure Recommended by Editor's pick - [Oxide](https://oxide.computer/blog) Company Server hardware and systems software - Operating systems and hardware - Compilers and languages Recommended by Editor's pick - [Razorpay Engineering](https://engineering.razorpay.com/) Company Payments systems in India - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Sebastian Ruder](https://www.ruder.io/) Personal NLP research overviews - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [Shopify Engineering](https://shopify.engineering/) Company Commerce at scale and Ruby - Networking and infrastructure - Compilers and languages Recommended by Editor's pick - [Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/) Personal LLMs in practice, tooling and prompt injection - AI and machine learning - Engineering practice Recommended by Editor's pick - [Slack Engineering](https://slack.engineering/) Company Messaging infrastructure and reliability - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Stripe Engineering](https://stripe.dev/blog/topic/engineering) Company Payments infrastructure and reliability - Networking and infrastructure - Distributed systems Recommended by Editor's pick - [Transformer Circuits Thread](https://transformer-circuits.pub/) Company Interpretability research on how language models work internally - AI and machine learning - Formal methods and theory Recommended by Editor's pick - [turbopuffer](https://turbopuffer.com/blog) Company Vector and full-text search built on object storage - Databases and storage - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Uber Engineering](https://www.uber.com/blog/engineering/) Company Marketplace, data and storage systems - Distributed systems - Databases and storage Recommended by Editor's pick - [Vicki Boykis](https://vickiboykis.com/) Personal ML engineering and embeddings - AI and machine learning Recommended by Editor's pick - [Zerodha Tech](https://zerodha.tech/) Company Running a stock brokerage on a small, simple stack - Networking and infrastructure - Engineering practice Recommended by Editor's pick Engineering blogs by topic ## Databases and storage Database internals are one of the strongest parts of this list. [Phil Eaton](#phil-eaton), [Marc Brooker](#marc-brooker), [Alex Miller](#alex-miller) and [Justin Jaffray](#justin-jaffray) write about how databases are built, while [Mark Callaghan](#mark-callaghan) publishes long-running performance benchmarks for MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB. Two company blogs, [PlanetScale](#planetscale) and [ClickHouse](#clickhouse-blog), cover the same ground from the side of people who run these systems for customers; [bits & pages](#bits-pages-almog-gavra) explains storage engines from first principles. ## Distributed systems [Martin Kleppmann](#martin-kleppmann) and [Jack Vanlightly](#jack-vanlightly) are the usual starting points, and [Murat Demirbas](#murat-demirbas) reviews distributed systems papers at a pace few people can match. [Werner Vogels](#werner-vogels) writes from the position of having run one of the largest of these systems, and [Cindy Sridharan](#cindy-sridharan) covers observability and testing in production. ## Compilers and programming languages Languages and compilers are the largest single topic on the list. [Bob Nystrom](#bob-nystrom), [Max Bernstein](#max-bernstein) and [Andy Wingo](#andy-wingo) write about interpreters, runtimes and garbage collection. [Aleksey Kladov](#aleksey-kladov), [Nicholas Matsakis](#nicholas-matsakis), [Ralf Jung](#ralf-jung) and [Amos Wenger](#amos-wenger) are the names to follow for Rust, and [Russ Cox](#russ-cox) and [Eli Bendersky](#eli-bendersky) for Go. [Fangrui Song](#fangrui-song) is the person to read on linkers. ## Performance and low-level engineering [Brendan Gregg](#brendan-gregg) on systems performance and [Daniel Lemire](#daniel-lemire) on SIMD and algorithms publish often and measure everything. [Travis Downs](#travis-downs) and [Denis Bakhvalov](#denis-bakhvalov) go down to how the processor itself behaves. [Dan Luu](#dan-luu), who was named by more people than anyone else on this list, writes long, heavily researched essays on performance, hardware and how engineering organisations work. ## Graphics and game development [Aras Pranckevičius](#aras-pranckevicius) and [Fabian Giesen](#fabian-giesen) cover rendering, compression and optimisation in depth. [Amit Patel](#amit-patel) at Red Blob Games and [Bartosz Ciechanowski](#bartosz-ciechanowski) build interactive explanations that are worth opening even if you never write graphics code. ## Security and cryptography [Filippo Valsorda](#filippo-valsorda) and [Matthew Green](#matthew-green) explain cryptography engineering for people who are not cryptographers. [Colin Percival](#colin-percival) and [Seth Larson](#seth-larson) write about security from the side of maintaining software that other people depend on. ## Operating systems, tooling and debugging [Julia Evans](#julia-evans) explains Linux, networking and git more clearly than most documentation does. [Chris Siebenmann](#chris-siebenmann) has posted Unix system administration notes almost daily for years, [Rachel Kroll](#rachel-kroll) tells debugging stories from large production systems, and [Ken Shirriff](#ken-shirriff) reverse-engineers old chips down to the transistor. ## AI and machine learning Few of the replies named an AI blog, so most of this section is my own picks. [Simon Willison](#simon-willison) writes about using LLMs in practice, [Hamel Husain](#hamel-husain) and [Eugene Yan](#eugene-yan) about evals and applied LLM systems, and [Chip Huyen](#chip-huyen) about ML systems design. [Lilian Weng](#lilian-weng) publishes long survey posts on agents and prompting; [Andrej Karpathy](#andrej-karpathy) and [Jay Alammar](#jay-alammar) explain how neural networks and transformers work from the ground up. ## Company engineering blogs Six company blogs were recommended by name: [Cloudflare](#cloudflare-blog), [Tailscale](#tailscale-blog), [PlanetScale](#planetscale), [ClickHouse](#clickhouse-blog), [Pinterest Engineering](#pinterest-engineering) and [Skyscanner Engineering](#skyscanner-engineering). Cloudflare and PlanetScale were each named by more than one person. The rest of the company blogs here are my own additions, among them [Netflix TechBlog](#netflix-techblog), [Stripe Engineering](#stripe-engineering), [Amazon Builders' Library](#amazon-builders-library), [Jane Street](#jane-street) and [Zerodha Tech](#zerodha-tech). ## How this list was put together On 1 October 2026 I posted [one question on X](https://x.com/gaurav_ships/status/2105548771379782045): which tech blogs do you like, whether company blogs, personal blogs or Substack. I went through every reply and quote post, including the ones that answered with a screenshot or a link to another list, and collected each blog that was named. Most of the list, 144 of the 211 blogs, comes from [Required Reading on The Consensus](https://theconsensus.dev/developers.html), which Phil Eaton maintains as a roll of experienced writers who keep publishing strong articles on hard topics in software infrastructure. Phil pointed to it in his reply, and it is worth reading at the source, where it also comes with a combined feed. Another 17 came from individual replies and quote posts, and they widen the list into company engineering blogs, Substack, iOS and CSS. I then added 50 blogs myself, and they are marked as Editor's pick in the directory. The replies leaned heavily towards systems and infrastructure, which left AI engineering and most of the well-known company engineering blogs unrepresented, and those are the two gaps my picks fill. Where someone gave a name without a link, I added the link. The one-line descriptions and the topic tags are ours, written to help you decide what to open first, and they are short by design; a writer who has published for fifteen years does not fit in twelve words. If a description undersells a blog you know well, tell me and I will fix it. Nothing here is ranked. Blogs named by more than one person are marked, and that is the only ordering signal on the page. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which engineering blogs should I start with? Start with the ones more than one person named: Dan Luu, Julia Evans, Eli Bendersky, Cloudflare and PlanetScale. After that, filter by the topic closest to your work and pick two blogs from it; reading a few writers closely pays off more than skimming all 211. ### How do I follow this many blogs without checking each one? Use an RSS reader. Almost every personal blog on this list publishes a feed, and The Consensus offers a single combined feed for the 144 writers on its Required Reading list. ### Are company engineering blogs worth reading? The good ones are. A company blog earns a place when it explains how a system works or what went wrong during an incident, in enough detail that you could apply it elsewhere. The six named in the replies were recommended for that reason, and I held my own additions to the same bar. ### Is this list ranked? No. It is a curated directory, and each blog named in the replies is shown with who named it; an Editor's pick is one I added myself. A blog named once by someone who has read it for ten years may be a better fit for you than one named by several people. ### Where did the recommendations come from? Replies and quote posts under a single question on X, plus Required Reading on The Consensus, which Phil Eaton shared in his reply and which accounts for 144 of the 211 entries. A further 50 are my own picks, marked as Editor's pick. ### How can I suggest a blog that is missing? Reply to the [original post on X](https://x.com/gaurav_ships/status/2105548771379782045) with the name and the link. I read the replies and update this page. ## A note on who maintains this Maximem maintains this page. We build [Synap](https://www.maximem.ai/synap), a memory layer for AI agents, and several of the writers on this list are regular reading for our team. --- Source: [https://www.maximem.ai/engineering-blogs](https://www.maximem.ai/engineering-blogs)