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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…

Haha, basically all the big names :) There are some gems spread out across them all for sure; such as "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" from LinkedIn.

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

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I actually really like many of the blogs at Microsoft. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but there's some gems in there. Raymond Chen's blog[1] in particular was good enough to get me to buy his book (which definitely did not disappoint). Other ones I subscribe to are the Microsoft Edge Dev Blog[2] , Mark Russinovich[3] and Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK[4] And there's a few that have unfortunately not been updated f…

I'll have to second MS. I'll have to check out these individuals, but for sure some of the teams have been putting out really good reads. Recently with the chakra and DOM articles for edge, and I also enjoy the TypeScript and .Net blogs on a regular basis.

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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.

The blog seems to be down at the moment
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