If you like some of my blog posts, I’d recommend reading some of the following blogs, which I read regularly.
This list is organized alphabetically and includes engineers, researchers, and technologists whose work I find valuable.
People & Blogs
Bartlomiej Plotka
- Website: bwplotka.dev
- Twitter: @bwplotka
- Focus: Observability, Prometheus, Thanos, Go
Brendan Gregg
- Website: brendangregg.com
- Twitter: @brendangregg
- Focus: Performance engineering, eBPF, systems observability
Bryan Cantrill
- Twitter: @bcantrill
- Focus: Systems programming, debugging, distributed systems
Charity Majors
- Website: charity.wtf
- Twitter: @mipsytipsy
- Focus: Observability, engineering culture, distributed systems
Cindy Sridharan
- Website: copyconstruct.medium.com
- Twitter: @copyconstruct
- Focus: Distributed systems, observability, testing
Dave Cheney
- Website: dave.cheney.net
- Twitter: @davecheney
- Focus: Go programming, performance, simplicity
Derek Sivers
- Website: sive.rs
- Focus: Life philosophy, entrepreneurship, writing
Frederic Branczyk
- Website: brancz.com
- Twitter: @fredbrancz
- Focus: Observability, Prometheus, Kubernetes
Gergely Orosz
- Website: blog.pragmaticengineer.com
- Twitter: @GergelyOrosz
- Focus: Engineering culture, career development, tech industry
Jamie Tanna
- Website: jvt.me
- Twitter: @JamieTanna
- Focus: DevOps, automation, IndieWeb, Go
Jan Fabian Meier
- Website: jfm.carcosa.net
- Focus: Systems programming, performance, Zig
Jesse Duffield
- Website: jesseduffield.com
- Twitter: @DuffieldJesse
- Focus: Developer tools, Go, productivity
Julia Evans
Liz Rice
- Twitter: @lizrice
- Focus: eBPF, containers, security, Kubernetes
Loris Cro
- Website: kristoff.it
- Twitter: @croloris
- Focus: Zig, systems programming, developer experience
Martin Kleppmann
- Website: martin.kleppmann.com
- Twitter: @martinkl
- Focus: Distributed systems, databases, CRDTs
Mat Ryer
- Website: matryer.com
- Twitter: @matryer
- Focus: Go programming, API design, testing
Matthias Endler
- Website: endler.dev
- Twitter: @matthiasendler
- Focus: Rust, performance, developer tools
Matthias Loibl
- Website: metalmatze.de
- Twitter: @MetalMatze
- Focus: Observability, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Go
Nick Craver
- Website: nickcraver.com
- Twitter: @Nick_Craver
- Focus: Performance, architecture, Stack Overflow infrastructure
Russ Cox
- Website: research.swtch.com
- Twitter: @_rsc
- Focus: Go, programming languages, software engineering
Simon Willison
- Website: simonwillison.net
- Twitter: @simonw
- Focus: Python, databases, AI/ML, web development
Steve Yegge
- Website: steve-yegge.blogspot.com
- Focus: Programming languages, platforms, software engineering
Thorsten Ball
- Website: thorstenball.com
- Twitter: @thorstenball
- Focus: Compilers, interpreters, programming languages
Tom MacWright
- Website: macwright.com
- Twitter: @tmcw
- Focus: Mapping, web development, open source
Tyler Neely
- Website: sled.rs
- Twitter: @sadisticsystems
- Focus: Databases, Rust, distributed systems
Will Larson
- Website: lethain.com
- Twitter: @Lethain
- Focus: Engineering leadership, systems thinking, career development
Company Blogs
Datadog Engineering
- Website: datadoghq.com/blog/engineering
- Focus: Observability, infrastructure, performance
Grafana Labs
- Website: grafana.com/blog
- Focus: Observability, visualization, open source
Netflix Tech Blog
- Website: netflixtechblog.com
- Focus: Distributed systems, DevOps, performance
Polar Signals
- Website: polarsignals.com/blog
- Focus: Continuous profiling, eBPF, performance
This is not the perfect way to share these—I’m working on an OPML export and better organization. If you have suggestions, let me know.