#Unsolicited Opinions on software craftsmanship

Coming soon: Rants about software engineering, interesting conference talks you may have missed and a disturbing amount of "cloud yelling"

In the meantime ... here are some resources I check regularly

• Articles
  • On mentoring
    • Tips for mentoring junior developers and bringing them up to speed
    • How to Mentor Junior Developers: A Step-by-Step Guide
  • On design docs
    • How to write a good software design doc
    • Design Docs at Google
  • On code reviews
    • What to look for in a code review
  • On teams, roles, responsibilities and structure
    • Geek Culture article
• Conference Talks
  • Spring IO talk on GraphQL by spring-graphql committer Spring for GraphQL
  • Spring IO talks on Security by spring-security lead Spring Security Enterprise Security with Spring Authorization Server
  • Strange Loop Conference for mid west devs has some really interesting talks
  • A Bootiful Podcast (Spring podcast) by Josh Long Reactive Spring author: Spring Security lead Rob Winch
  • Detroit Dev Day is Google-sponsored conference for Detroit devs
• Engineering Blogs worth checking periodically
  • Company authored
    • Netflix Engineering
    • Uber Engineering
  • Community authored
    • Geek Culture
    • InfoQ Presentations
    • Dev.to is basically the developer's portal for articles by developers for developers (think Microservices, React, ML, rate limiting) Android etc.
  • Individual
    • Joel Spolsky Joel on Software
    • Kent Beck's Mastering Programming
• Random articles
  • Takeaways from the famous Amazon DynamoDB paper
  • Another Amazon DynamoDB paper summary
• Newsletters worth subscribing to
  • Alex Xu's Byte Byte Go
  • Martin Fowler on Agile
  • Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror
  • System Design codex
• Mildly interesting YouTube channels
  • Jordan has no life - Great deep-dive of System Design interview questions by an ex-Meta SWE
    • Amazon Payment Gateway
    • LinkedIn mutual connection search
    • Robinhood stock trading
    • Recommendation Engine Design Deep Dive
    • Design a Distributed Priority Queue
  • NeetCode.io - Solution videos for LeetCode problems NeetCode.io founder
    • Playlist of Easies
    • Playlist of Mediums
    • PlayList of Hards
• Bookmarkable Github repos
  • System Design Primer - A useful resource for anyone learning or wishing to brush up on system design concepts e.g. Availability, Consistency, Databases (NoSQL and SQL), etc. Highly recommed
  • LeetCode cheatsheet
  • Hiring without whiteboard - curated crowd-sourced list of companies that do non-coding assessments in the hiring
  • Grokking the coding interview: Patterns for coding questions
• TED Talks about tech
  • What happens when computers get smarter than we are?
  • The wonderful implications of computers that can learn
  • how virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
• Books
  • Michael Wakin's The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
  • Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture -> pdf
  • Uncle Bob's Clean Code -> pdf
  • Kent Beck's Tidy First: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
  • Chad Fowler The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) -> pdf
  • Software Engineering @ Google (book by Googlers) -> read online
  • Joel Spolsky's Smart and Gets Things done)
• Reference
  • Google style guide
  • Google Engineering best practices