Engineering Blogs

“Reading the Minds of Great Engineers”

You cannot work at Netflix (yet). But you can read exactly how they solved their biggest problems. Reading these blogs is the cheat code to looking like a “Senior Engineer” during interviews.

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The “Big Tech” Hall of Fame

1. Netflix Tech Blog

• Focus: Microservices, Cloud Scaling, Culture.
• Must Read: What happens when you press play?
• Why Read: If you want to be a Backend Engineer, this is your bible.

2. Uber Engineering

• Focus: Geolocation, High-Traffic Systems, Data.
• Must Read: Designing Uber’s geospatial index (H3).
• Why Read: To understand how to handle millions of requests per second.

3. Meta (Facebook) Engineering

• Focus: AI/ML, Frontend (React), Mobile.
• Must Read: How we built simple/efficient android apps.
• Why Read: They invented React. If you do frontend, you must read this.

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The “Startup” Gems

4. Discord Engineering

• Focus: Real-time communication, Elixir, Rust.
• Famous Post: Why Discord switched from Go to Rust.
• Why Read: Best practical examples of “Why we picked X technology”.

5. Cloudflare Blog

• Focus: Internet security, How the web works (DNS/HTTP).
• Why Read: To understand the “pipes” of the internet.