Curated list of 12 must-read system design and architecture newsletters
bibryam · x · 2026-11-01
Bilgin Ibryam curated a reading list of 12 newsletters on system design, distributed systems, and software architecture, arguing that system design is about understanding trade-offs, not drawing boxes. Highlights: The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz, Kent Beck's Tidy First?, ByteByteGo by Alex Xu (1M+ readers), Architecture Weekly by Oskar Dudycz, and Byte-Sized Design for 43k+ engineers.
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