Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

#1

Post by orangep » Wed, May 22, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

Are there any good engineering (company or community based) blogs that delve into the design process while building their systems/products?

I'd like to understand how teams compare tradeoffs, handle technical difficulties while designing systems for their products.

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by __exit__ » Wed, May 22, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

The Uber Engineering Blog[0] is the first thing that that comes to my mind.

It has posts describing optimizations and approaches they took in certain subsystems.

[0] https://eng.uber.com/

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by deepakkarki » Wed, May 22, 2019, 10:57 AM UTC

I curate a bunch of articles (about 10 every weekday) on https://discoverdev.io

A lot of articles are companies describing their exact issue, possible designs considered and final design adopted. Check out the tags "#software-architecture" (https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/software-architecture) or "#scaling" (https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/scaling) for articles that you're looking for.

I've been doing this for about two years now and perhaps curated about 5000 such blogposts!

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by shekhardesigner » Wed, May 22, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

My personal favorites are Ebay Engineering Blog - https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/

And Toptal blog.

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by Anurag8701 » Wed, May 22, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

A curated list of engineering blogs is here: https://twitter.com/engblogs

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by cpach » Wed, May 22, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

These sites are not blogs, but might still be worth exploring:

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

and

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions?sort...

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by samrohn » Thu, May 23, 2019, 2:41 AM UTC

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs has a list of engineering blogs https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer good resource into distributed system design

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

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Post by mrburton » Fri, May 24, 2019, 5:57 AM UTC

Interesting you've mentioned this. I'm working on a series of YouTube videos that is aimed to teach engineers a) how to think and design an application from scratch and b) How this process works at companies so they get a sense of what it's like professionally.

The channel is called "Think Code" and I'm working on different videos focused on a) teaching people how to code quickly and easily (free of course), b) give junior engineers and understanding of what's expected from them professionally and c) share advice to engineers on how to become better engineers. e.g., problem solving, how to learn new systems quickly, trouble shooting tips, practical advice on scrum that actually works, etc.

Let me know if you would be interested. I'm working on releasing videos next week.

Re: Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?

#9

Post by tnolet » Sat, May 25, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

I write a blog on building a SaaS app. I go pretty deep into design, implementation etc. Two articles hit the HN front page in the last month.

Https://blog.checklyhq.com