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Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by dfcowell »

brightball wrote: post #59
foob wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that meshes well with my thoughts on it. We're less concerned with hiring right now than with acquiring more clients, but our customers are generally developers at small to medium sized startups. We fall into that category ourselves so we've felt like things that would appeal to us would also appeal to our customers (and vice versa).

See Codeship's blog for a consistently published tech blog for a product targeted to a tech audience. They do a really good job with it. https://blog.codeship.com/ Disclosure: I periodically write for Codeship.

As an unfortunately ex-codeship user, I can vouch for this - and for the quality of their product/support.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by ontouchstart »

foob wrote: post #41

What are peoples' thoughts on the marketing effectiveness of quality relative to quantity in blogging? We have recently started publishing what we consider to be very high quality material (the majority of them have front-paged on HN if that's any indication). Most of these have been published on [1] so far but we're in the process of transitioning to a more official company blog [2]. A close friend who really knows…

BTW, I am a kind of reader who is interested in meta stories, i.e., stories behind the stories. Following you blog and I find the meta link on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sangaline.com

It would be interesting to do some graph analysis on it.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by djhworld »

JayeshSidhwani wrote: post #44

I had asked a similar question on Quora [1] few years back. Here is the summary: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering?sk=notes - Google: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ - Twitter: http://engineering.twitter.com/ - Linkedin: http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog - Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/ - Instagram: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/ - Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/ - Flickr: h…

A helpful list, but some (e.g. Bitly) haven't posted an article for more than 2 years.

Could be useful for archived content though I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by kaishiro »

Thoughtbot, in addition to having a really good blog, is at least in the running for one of the best names (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots).

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/

I love it because the articles are often small, one off tips re: vim, the command line, ruby, etc. Really neat stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by willsewell »

Pusher: https://making.pusher.com/

Disclosure: I work there and have written articles for the blog.

At the moment we mainly blog about our experiences with Golang (our language of choice right now). But really it's open to any topic someone in our engineering team is interested in writing about.

We aim to keep things visual, interactive and example-based. For example Jim Fisher created an interactive animation of Golang's GC algorithm here: https://making.pusher.com/golangs-real-time-gc-in-theory-and.... We also managed to embed Golang's trace visualiser within one of the posts: https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace/#tour-of-the-go-tool... (using some pretty dirty tricks).

Re: Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

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Post by yebyen »

Deis blog:

https://deis.com/blog/

Especially @rimusz, who is not technically part of Deis engineering team (?) :

https://deis.com/blog/2016/first-kubernetes-cluster-gke/

Partially self-serving post because I'm also published here:

https://deis.com/blog/2016/cheapest-fault-tolerant-cluster-d...

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an index of the posts on one page! There are links to relevant posts on the sidebar and both of those have good relevant links.

These guys I worked with for a long time, to get my post out! It kind of stung a bit when the v1 PAAS was officially deprecated before I got to put it online. But in terms of support, the newer solutions are only better. The lessons learned putting this post out are still valid, even if the specific product of the tutorial is no longer relevant. (I used this process to create my own CoreOS bare metal cluster, and I don't actually use DigitalOcean in my day-to-day work.)

But the other content on the blog really was a good, focused introduction to Kubernetes and friends for me. Deis is the team that created Helm and it was subsumed into Kubernetes (and Helm Classic, which was another iteration before it was part of Kubernetes proper.)

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