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kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

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TLDR

A curated list of engineering blogs from companies, developers, and tech products, organized alphabetically for easy discovery and RSS import.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Aggregates blogs
      Organizes by type
      Enables RSS import
    Content types
      Company blogs
      Individual blogs
      Product blogs
    How to use
      Browse list
      Import to reader
      Contribute via PR
    Audience
      Engineers
      Job seekers
      Tech writers

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a curated RSS feed of engineering blogs from companies you admire.

USE CASE 2

Research how specific companies like Netflix or Stripe approach technical problems.

USE CASE 3

Discover writing styles and content depth from established tech organizations before writing your own blog.

USE CASE 4

Prepare for job interviews by learning about engineering culture at target companies.

Tech stack

MarkdownOPMLRuby

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
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In plain English

This repository is a community-maintained curated list of engineering blogs from software companies, individual developers, and technology products. The problem it solves is simple: engineering blogs are scattered across hundreds of different domains and Medium publications, making it hard to discover where companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, or Cloudflare publish their technical writing. This list aggregates them into a single, alphabetically indexed reference so engineers can find reading material without having to search company by company. How it works: the repository itself is a structured Markdown file (and an OPML file, a standard format for RSS reader import) with links organized into three main sections: company engineering blogs, individual or group contributor blogs, and product- or technology-specific blogs. Each entry is simply a name and a URL. The list is maintained on GitHub, so anyone can contribute by submitting a pull request to add or update a blog. You would use this repository when you want to keep up with how large engineering organizations solve technical problems in production, explore how companies like Netflix, GitHub, or Stripe approach specific engineering challenges, or simply build a curated RSS reading list. Developers use it to discover writing from companies they admire, job seekers use it to research engineering culture before interviews, and technical writers use it for inspiration on content style and depth. The repository is classified as Ruby on GitHub because of a small Ruby script included for processing the OPML export, but the actual content is Markdown. There is no application to run or install, it is a reference document you browse or import into an RSS reader.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up an RSS reader with blogs from this engineering blogs list. Which blogs should I start with to learn about cloud infrastructure?
Prompt 2
I want to contribute a new engineering blog to this list. What format should I use and how do I submit a pull request?
Prompt 3
Show me how to import the OPML file from this repo into my RSS reader so I can follow multiple company engineering blogs at once.
Prompt 4
Which blogs from this list focus on distributed systems and database design? I'm preparing for a systems design interview.
Prompt 5
I'm starting a technical blog. Which engineering blogs from this list have the best writing style and structure I should emulate?
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