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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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Coinbase Engineering
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- Not startedArticleAI Norms & Values, Part 2: AI for Honeycomb Engineering
Charity Majors / Emily Nakashima
- Not startedArticleAI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True
Charity Majors
- Not startedArticleAI code causes real world production outages
Chris Stokel-Walker
- Not startedArticleAI governance is now an engineering problem
Himanshu Saxena
- Not startedArticleAI made me a better engineering leader
Shraddhaben R Gajjar
- Not startedArticleAI made platform engineering strategic again
Robert Kimani
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- Not startedArticleAI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
Gergely Orosz / Elin Nilsson
- Not startedArticleAgentic Verification
Addy Osmani
- Not startedArticleArchitectural Governance at AI Speed
Kyle Howard et al. (InfoQ Certified Architect Program)
- Not startedArticleBuilding Claude Code with Boris Cherny
Pragmatic Engineer
- Not startedArticleBuilding a Robust Harness for agent in production: Feed agent case-study
Kamie Shami-Schnitzer (monday AI engineering)
- Not startedArticleBuilding an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence
Ben Linders / Whitney Lee & Viktor Farcic
- Not startedArticleDORA capability: Platform engineering
DORA / Google Cloud
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- Not startedArticleDemystifying the Engineering Manager Interview Process at Flo
Pavel Neizhmak (Senior Engineering Manager, Flo Health)
- Not startedArticleDesign-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework
Huei-Hsin Wang, Nielsen Norman Group
- Not startedArticleDesigning the AI-native engineering organization
Justin Reock (DX) with Microsoft / 1Password / Atlassian CTOs
- Not startedArticleDevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole Forsgren, Michaela Greiler
- Not startedArticleDeveloper Experience | The GitLab Handbook
GitLab Developer Experience section
- Not startedArticleEngineering management's foundational skills
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleEngineering managers are back in the codebase
Chantal Kapani
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- Not startedArticleEvolving platform engineering for AI-native workloads
CNCF blog; quotes Atulpriya Sharma, Co-Organizer, CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group
- Not startedArticleFacilitating AI adoption at Imprint
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleFive principles for successfully managing managers
Saumil Mehta / Lenny
- Not startedArticleGitLab Values (CREDIT)
GitLab
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- Not startedArticleHoneycomb Is Hiring a New VP of Engineering
Charity Majors
- Not startedArticleHow Capital One migrated to the cloud: Lessons from an 8-year journey
Allison Perkel, VP, Software Engineering, Capital One Software
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- Not startedArticleHow building software is changing at Anthropic
Gergely Orosz
- Not startedArticleHow to Nail Big Tech Behavioral Interviews as a Senior Software Engineer
Gregor Ojstersek and Austen McDonald
- Not startedArticleHow to ace a design leader job interview
Eric Snowden (SVP of Design, Adobe)
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- Not startedArticleIf your team is happy, are you doing a good job?
Charity Majors
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- Not startedArticleInside OpenAI's agentic software factory
Gergely Orosz
- Not startedArticleIntroducing Codeflow: our open-source interview environment
Kaden Beckstead, Senior Software Engineer, Webflow
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- Not startedArticleKindred careers / culture
Kindred
- Not startedArticleLater, 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)
- Not startedArticleLong live the engineering manager
Liz de Moll
- Not startedArticleMeet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Stripe Engineering
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- Not startedArticleMiddle management roles are also a trap
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleMinions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents — Part 2
Alistair Gray, Stripe
- Not startedArticleNobody needs a human router
James Stanier
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- Not startedArticleRevised rules of engineering leadership
Will Larson (CTO, Imprint)
- Not startedArticleRevisiting the DX Core 4 in the age of AI
Brian Houck / DX
- Not startedArticleRightsizing Platform Engineering
John Keates / InfoQ
- Not startedArticleRoadmap decisions rather than dates
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleShifting Platform Development from Projects to Products
Ben Linders (KubeCon / Bergman & Tonnies)
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- Not startedArticleSoftware engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver
Gergely Orosz, Ivan Klaric, Jesse Spevack
- Not startedArticleSpeeding up code review with `small-change`
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleState of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon, The Pragmatic Engineer
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- Not startedArticleThe Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Charity Majors
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- Not startedArticleThe Samsara Culture Playbook
Steve Pickle, Chief People Officer, Samsara
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- Not startedArticleThe end of the non-technical engineering manager
James Stanier, LeadDev
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- Not startedArticleThe impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends. Part 1
Gergely Orosz / Elin Nilsson
- Not startedArticleThe new engineering manager hiring bar
Stephane Moreau
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- Not startedArticleThe sprawl of design manager portfolios
Hannah Hearth
- Not startedArticleThe state of the tech industry in 2026
Gergely Orosz
- Not startedArticleTokenmaxxing and the search for AI metrics that matter
Antonija Bilić Arar
- Not startedArticleTrying the Software factory pattern
Will Larson
- Not startedArticleUnder the River
Javier Moreno
- Not startedArticleWe're on call for code nobody wrote
Thomas Johnson
- Not startedArticleWebflow AI hiring principles
Webflow
- Not startedArticleWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
Evan Bottcher
- Not startedArticleWhat 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)
- Not startedArticleWhat are Coinbase’s Engineering Principles?
Jesse Pollak (The Coinbase Blog)
- Not startedArticleWhat is happening with code reviews?
Gergely Orosz
- Not startedArticleWhat to expect during your Capital One interview
Capital One Careers
- Not startedArticleWhy Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect
Gergely Orosz, Jessica Salmon, and Ivan Klaric
- Not startedArticleYour engineering strategy has a new failure mode
Robert Kimani
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- Not startedBookAccelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
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- Not startedBookArticulating Design Decisions (2nd edition)
Tom Greever
- Not startedBookHigh Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
- Not startedBookLiftoff!: Practical Design Leadership to Elevate Your Team, Your Organization, and You
Chris Avore and Russ Unger
- Not startedBookOrg Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
- Not startedBookPlatform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders
Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland
- Not startedBookTeam Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (2nd ed. 2025)
Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
- Not startedBookThe Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (revised 2025)
Julie Zhuo (former VP of Product Design, Facebook)
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- Not startedPodcastAI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers
Lenny Rachitsky interviewing Tara Seshan
- Not startedPodcastAn AI state of the union (Lenny’s Podcast)
Lenny Rachitsky interviewing Simon Willison
- Not startedPodcastCamille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams
Craig Cannon — Y Combinator Podcast
- Not startedPodcastDORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the right framework
Abi Noda and Laura Tacho — Engineering Enablement (DX)
- Not startedPodcastEngineering Enablement
Abi Noda (with Laura Tacho, Brian Houck, Justin Reock — DX Research)
- Not startedPodcastFrom Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
Gergely Orosz / Addy Osmani
- Not startedPodcastHow to Master Behavioral Interviews (Refactoring Podcast, Episode 57)
Luca Rossi with guest Austen McDonald (Refactoring)
- Not startedPodcastInsights Unlocked, Ep. 213: Designing for frontline workers in a digital world
Blair Fraser (host); Andrew Ackermann, then VP of Product Design at Samsara
- Not startedPodcastObject Stats: How We Work Today at Samsara
John Bicket (CTO & co-founder) and Johan Land (SVP, Product)
- Not startedPodcastOpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer
Lenny Rachitsky interviewing Ian Silber
- Not startedPodcastStop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
Gergely Orosz with Charity Majors
- Not startedPodcastUber's AI infra, from the inside
Gergely Orosz, Uday Kiran Medisetty
- Not startedPodcastWhat happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)
Fiona Fung / Lenny Rachitsky
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- Not startedQuestion bankEngineering Manager Interview Questions: 12 Real Scenarios (2026)
ZeroPitch / buildzeroist
- Not startedQuestion bank
- Not startedQuestion bankNine categories: how engineering manager interviews actually get scored
GinoCorp Industries
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- Not startedReportAI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026
Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson, The Pragmatic Engineer
- Not startedReportAccelerate State of DevOps Report 2024
DORA / Google Cloud
- Not startedReportCNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model
CNCF TAG App Delivery (Abby Bangser, Josh Gavant, and working group)
- Not startedReportCNCF Platforms White Paper
CNCF TAG App Delivery, Platforms Working Group
- Not startedReportDORA 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)
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- Not startedReportInfoQ 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
- Not startedReportIntroducing Platform Engineering 2.0: An evolution for the AI era
Sam Barlien; Pankaj Gupta
- Not startedReportMeasuring AI code assistants and agents
Abi Noda & Laura Tacho / DX
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- Not startedReportSignalFire State of Tech Talent Report 2026
Tawni Cranz and Asher Bantock, SignalFire
- Not startedReportState of AI Impact in Engineering: Q2 Report
Justin Reock / DX
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- Not startedReportThe gap between code velocity and trust is growing
DX (Scott, Grace Fu)
- Not startedVideoBuilding trustworthy agents at scale
Kinsey Durham Grace
- Not startedVideoConfig 2025: Maturing your teams & your leadership
Charlie Sutton, Josh Higgins, Christina Nguyen White, David Hoang, Andrew Hogan
- Not startedVideoFin's CTO on Building Great Engineering Organizations in the AI Era
Charity Majors, Darragh Curran
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- Not startedVideoGovernance is the platform problem worth solving
Jennifer Riggins; Mitali Parthasarathy et al.
- Not startedVideoHow to build trust into your AI agents
Natali Vlatko, Joseph Sandoval, Priya Wadhwa
- Not startedVideoLeadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
Justin Reock, Deputy CTO, DX — QCon AI New York; InfoQ recording
- Not startedVideoPlatform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup (former VP of Platform Engineering / Chief Architect, eBay)
- Not startedVideoPlatform Teams Enabling AI - MCP/Multi-Agentic Tools across LinkedIn
Karthik Ramgopal, Prince Valluri
- Not startedVideoScaling to 100+ as a Director
Thiago Ghisi / InfoQ
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- Not startedVideoThe Reinvention of the Dev Team
Hannah Foxwell
- Not startedVideoThe accountability gap: Engineering governance for autonomous AI
Sandeep Bharadwaj Mannapur
- Not startedVideoThe things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier
Camille Fournier, interviewed by Lenny Rachitsky — Lenny’s Podcast
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- Not startedVideoWhy AI necessitates a platform model
Jennifer Riggins; Rachel Laycock, Martin Reynolds, Nathen Harvey