What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth (no fluff)?

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth (no fluff)? 25 points by nishilpatel 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments I’m looking for examples of high-quality engineering blog posts—especially from tech company blogs, that go beyond surface-level explanations. Specifically interested in posts that: 1. Explain technical concepts clearly and concisely 2. Show real implementation details, trade-offs, and failures 3. Are well-structured and readable 4. Tie engineering decisions back to business or product outcomes Any standout blogs, posts, or platforms you regularly learn from? pella 28 minutes ago | next [–] > especially from tech company blogs, https://engineering.fb.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://stripe.com/blog/engineering https://eng.uber.com https://engineering.linkedin.com/ https://engineering.atspotify.com/ https://tailscale.com/blog https://careersatdoordash.com/engineering-blog/ https://dropbox.tech/ Aggregators:( https://engineering.fyi/ ; https://diff.blog/ ) + https://hn.algolia.com/?query=engineering%20blog Proposal: create a public engineering-blog SKILL.md. ( ~ collect the writing patterns that work on HN ) reply i_k 13 minutes ago | parent | next [–] I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS. But thank you! reply ludicity 0 minutes ago | prev | next [–] I'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html . The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge amount about weird holes in my practice from industry dysfunction in a very short period of time from him. reply yrand 50 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Encountered one specific example about a month ago here on HackerNews - All about automotive lidar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110395 Blog posts where I find quality really shows are usually about something I know next to nothing about how it works. A badly written article usually either goes really shallow or skips some facts when going into depth and requires catchup elsewhere to actually understand it. The lidar article from Main Street Autonomy goes beyond basics and explained everything from the ground up in such a connected way that it was a real pleasure reading it. reply qznc 49 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Sounds like you look for an intersection of academic papers (1.), tech blogs (2.), text books (3.), and confidential business strategies (4.)? A very high ambition. reply gchamonlive 41 minutes ago | parent | next [–] A very high ambition? reply vibesareoff 0 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Ask the LLM you wrote this post with! reply tester756 43 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Maybe https://projectzero.google/archive.html https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/ https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/ reply pveierland 14 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Tweag has many interesting entries with good technical depth: https://www.tweag.io/blog reply xnorswap 17 minutes ago | prev | next [–] You might be more interested in books than a blog. For example: The Architecture of Open Source Applications https://aosabook.org/en/index.html reply tekichan 39 minutes ago | prev | next [–] http://highscalability.squarespace.com/all-time-favorites/ reply nchmy 41 minutes ago | prev | next [–] You're probably looking for something that is...

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