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Books, articles, videos, and drills I’m using to stay sharp on engineering leadership and platform work.

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ArticleDORA capability: Platform engineering

DORA / Google Cloud

ArticleDemystifying the Engineering Manager Interview Process at Flo

Pavel Neizhmak (Senior Engineering Manager, Flo Health)

ArticleDesign-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework

Huei-Hsin Wang, Nielsen Norman Group

ArticleDevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity

Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole Forsgren, Michaela Greiler

ArticleDeveloper Experience | The GitLab Handbook

GitLab Developer Experience section

ArticleEvolving platform engineering for AI-native workloads

CNCF blog; quotes Atulpriya Sharma, Co-Organizer, CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group

ArticleGitLab Values (CREDIT)

GitLab

ArticleHow Capital One migrated to the cloud: Lessons from an 8-year journey

Allison Perkel, VP, Software Engineering, Capital One Software

ArticleHow Coinbase interviews for engineering roles

Coinbase Engineering

ArticleHow to Interview Engineering Managers: A Loop and Rubric That Works

ClarityHire Team

ArticleHow to Nail Big Tech Behavioral Interviews as a Senior Software Engineer

Gregor Ojstersek and Austen McDonald

ArticleHow to ace a design leader job interview

Eric Snowden (SVP of Design, Adobe)

ArticleIntroducing Codeflow: our open-source interview environment

Kaden Beckstead, Senior Software Engineer, Webflow

ArticleKindred careers / culture

Kindred

ArticleLater, rebranded: The story behind our boldest move yet

Tim Clarke, VP of Marketing, Later; with Betsy Field (Executive Creative Director) and Sarah Johnson (Senior Copywriter)

ArticleMiddle management roles are also a trap

Will Larson

ArticleMinions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents — Part 2

Alistair Gray, Stripe

ArticleOn becoming a senior technical leader

Coinbase

ArticleRevised rules of engineering leadership

Will Larson (CTO, Imprint)

ArticleSenior Engineering Manager | The GitLab Handbook

GitLab

ArticleState of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2

Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon, The Pragmatic Engineer

ArticleThe Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Charity Majors

ArticleThe Samsara Culture Playbook

Steve Pickle, Chief People Officer, Samsara

ArticleThe end of the non-technical engineering manager

James Stanier, LeadDev

ArticleThe new engineering manager hiring bar

Stephane Moreau

ArticleThe sprawl of design manager portfolios

Hannah Hearth

ArticleWebflow AI hiring principles

Webflow

ArticleWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Evan Bottcher

ArticleWhat TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn From Them

Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer (with Bernard Ng, Sophia Vicent, Yixin Zhu, and other practicing TPMs)

ArticleWhat are Coinbase’s Engineering Principles?

Jesse Pollak (The Coinbase Blog)

ArticleWhat to expect during your Capital One interview

Capital One Careers

BookAccelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

BookAn Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

BookArticulating Design Decisions (2nd edition)

Tom Greever

BookHigh Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

BookLiftoff!: Practical Design Leadership to Elevate Your Team, Your Organization, and You

Chris Avore and Russ Unger

BookOrg Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams

Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner

BookPlatform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders

Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland

BookTeam Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (2nd ed. 2025)

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais

BookThe Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (revised 2025)

Julie Zhuo (former VP of Product Design, Facebook)

BookThe Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Camille Fournier

PodcastAn AI state of the union (Lenny’s Podcast)

Lenny Rachitsky interviewing Simon Willison

PodcastCamille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams

Craig Cannon — Y Combinator Podcast

PodcastDORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the right framework

Abi Noda and Laura Tacho — Engineering Enablement (DX)

PodcastEngineering Enablement

Abi Noda (with Laura Tacho, Brian Houck, Justin Reock — DX Research)

PodcastHow to Master Behavioral Interviews (Refactoring Podcast, Episode 57)

Luca Rossi with guest Austen McDonald (Refactoring)

PodcastInsights Unlocked, Ep. 213: Designing for frontline workers in a digital world

Blair Fraser (host); Andrew Ackermann, then VP of Product Design at Samsara

PodcastObject Stats: How We Work Today at Samsara

John Bicket (CTO & co-founder) and Johan Land (SVP, Product)

Question bankEngineering Manager Interview Questions: 12 Real Scenarios (2026)

ZeroPitch / buildzeroist

Question bankEngineering Manager Interview Scorecard

ZYTHR

Question bankSenior Engineering Manager interview prep, what to expect

Calibrd

Question bankTechnical Program Manager (TPM) Interview Questions (2026)

Exponent Team

Question bankTechnical Program Manager Interview Questions and Prep

IGotAnOffer

ReportAI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026

Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson, The Pragmatic Engineer

ReportAccelerate State of DevOps Report 2024

DORA / Google Cloud

ReportCNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model

CNCF TAG App Delivery (Abby Bangser, Josh Gavant, and working group)

ReportCNCF Platforms White Paper

CNCF TAG App Delivery, Platforms Working Group

ReportDORA 2025: State of AI-Assisted Software Development

Nathen Harvey and Derek DeBellis (announcement); DORA / Google (Derek DeBellis, Kevin Storer, Matt Beane, Edward Fraser, Ben Good, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Gene Kim, Daniella Villalba)

ReportInfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report 2026

Shane Hastie (host) with Ben Linders, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith, Vanessa Formicola, Shawna Martell, Phillip Mortimer, Yinka Omole — InfoQ

ReportSignalFire State of Tech Talent Report 2026

Tawni Cranz and Asher Bantock, SignalFire

VideoConfig 2025: Maturing your teams & your leadership

Charlie Sutton, Josh Higgins, Christina Nguyen White, David Hoang, Andrew Hogan

VideoLeadership in AI-Assisted Engineering

Justin Reock, Deputy CTO, DX — QCon AI New York; InfoQ recording

VideoPlatform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Randy Shoup (former VP of Platform Engineering / Chief Architect, eBay)

VideoThe things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier, interviewed by Lenny Rachitsky — Lenny’s Podcast