285 Blog Posts To Learn About Engineering

30 Jul 2026

“Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”

Scott Adams

1. 12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies

What does tech management at Slack, HubSpot, Netflix, Etsy, Shopify, InVision, and more have in common? A lot, apparently!

2. Engineering Levels Ladder Explained

Ockam is sharing their engineer ladder in an effort to provide transparency and help junior engineers understand their potential career path.

3. How to Debug Any Problem

The ability to quickly and effectively find and resolve bugs in new and established systems is one of the most valuable [engineering] skills that you can develo

4. How to Build a WebAssembly Language for Fun and Profit: Parsing

In the second article, we’ll cover the next phase of our compiler, parsing, to take the token stream generated by the lexer and converting it to an AST.

5. Test-Driven Development is Fundamentally Wrong

It sounds backwards because it really is

6. If your goal is to be a software engineer, you've set the bar too low

When I started coding, it was partially because I thought it’d be cool to make a computer do my bidding.

7. Software Development is Not About Unit Tests

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8. Nailing your first months as a new Engineering Manager

Congratulations! You’ve been hired or promoted into a management role, and need to quickly transition from being an individual contributor to actually leading, inspiring and managing people. Not so confident about what to do next, and how to ensure your team and you are successful?

9. Enhancing DevOps Efficiency With ChatOps

In this article, we will explore how ChatOps tools can be harnessed to supercharge your DevOps practices

10. The Road to Hell is Paved with Good DRY Intentions

Learn how good intentions can lead to spaghetti dry code, over abstraction and over engineered systems.

11. Please Don't Use OFFSET and LIMIT For Your Pagination

Gone are the days when we wouldn’t need to worry about database performance optimization.

12. Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid: What’s the Right Approach?

I still remember my first day at Outbrain. As part of the Bootcamp (training program), we were required to clone the code from a repository called the trunk (one monolithic repo that contained all our codebase). It took at least half a day to clone and build the whole source code. Over the next year or two in which my team worked with a monorepo, we just suffered — cloning the repo was time-consuming; the slow build/release time frustrated us; flaky tests and bad commits affected all the engineering; and let’s not even mention the IntelliJ indexing time, which easily afforded us time to run down for a chatty coffee break.

13. Integrating Logging Using NLog in ASP.NET Core 3.0 Web App

NLog: It is an open source logging framework that provides a great flexibility and configurable options to log the insights of your application. It allows to select multiple targets like database, cloud services, files, console, etc. at the same time so that user don’t have to maintain different configurations in code. This is the most widely used logging framework out there.

14. Top 10 Electronic Design Companies You Should Know in 2022

Not all companies that sell great products can or wish to design devices on their own. Fortunately, businesses can choose from plenty of electronics design companies located in different countries. Many of them work internationally, offering hardware and software development, as well as other services.

15. Integrating Logging Using NLog in ASP.NET Core 3.0 Web App

16. React Hooks: Performance Pitfalls And How To Easily Avoid Them

From version 16.8.0, React introduced us to a way to use state and other React features without writing a class — React Hooks.

17. Build and Deploy a Blazor App Without Touching a Windows Machine

Do you want to try out Blazor, but you're not a Windows person? Strictly a Linux developer? You're in luck. One of the goals of .NET Core is to be cross-platform, so today we'll see just how "cross-platform" it really is with Blazor, Microsoft's hot new front end development project.

18. The Throw Keyword was a Mistake

Exception Handling

19. React 19: New Tools To Work With Forms

Discover how React 19's new hooks—useActionState, useFormStatus, and useOptimistic—simplify form handling with less boilerplate and cleaner code.

20. How To Test Safety Capacitor

Test of Fixed Safety Capacitors

21. 3 Steps To Learn Go: Moving From JavaScript and Python to Golang

Mastering a programming language takes years of time but learning a new language does not. And Trust me, Nobody is perfect when it comes to coding. As a software engineer, one should be at least familiar with minimum 4–5 different languages or at least he should know how to learn a new language in small amount of time.

22. What is a BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) and How Does it Work?

A BESS is an energy storage system (ESS) that captures energy from different sources, accumulates this energy, and stores it in rechargeable batteries.

23. Structural Analysis of a Beam with Python

A simple python program to compute the shear and bending stresses in a beam element

24. Say Goodbye to Kubernetes and Hello to Nomad!

Why we chose Nomad as an alternative to Kubernetes for container orchestration

25. Best Fintech Startup Ideas of 2019

FinTech is the amalgamation of the two most powerful industries of our time: Finance and Technology. We all know the things that technology and finance have achieved on their own. Most of the 21st century is made possible due to these two entities.

26. The Ten Top Cities for Highest Cloud Engineering Salaries

A high salary can make you feel like you’re on cloud nine. For cloud engineers, jobs with these sky-high paychecks are in no short supply. In fact, the number of cloud engineer jobs on Indeed.com increased by over 55% between May 2017 and May 2019. And candidate interest is also skyrocketing: The number of people searching for cloud engineer jobs increased by over 52% in that same time period.

27. Secrets of Reverse Programming: Learn Coding Faster

How to start Programming? Nope, there is a lot of articles on internet related with this topic, so I am not going to say same things to you because I will show you secrets of Reverse Programming

28. Creating a Object Storage System from scratch

I was very much interested in developing distributed systems and the like. But it was very difficult to find related beginner articles. One of my projects was a cloud drive. In order to implement that, i had to go many places i haven't. It had a good steep learning curve. I wanted to share that knowledge.

29. Introduction to the Finite Element Method(F.E.M): A Practical Application Using Python

Python is a an easy language to use when implementing Finite element method to numerically get the response of engineering structures when subjected to stress.

30. Engineering Teams Can Ship Assignment Submission Portals in Hours: How You Can Do It Too

This guide is for engineering leaders who want to avoid this situation. Instead of building file handling from scratch, you can use ready-made file services

31. We Built The World's Largest Real time High-Frequency, Low Latency Streaming System on Golang

The evolution, failures and design decisions behind one of the world’s largest real-time, high-frequency and low-latency streaming systems.

32. An Essential Guide to Legacy Code

In this guide, you'll learn what is legacy code, its characteristics, tools, and the best practices for working effectively with legacy code and technical debt.

33. Progressive Web Apps You May Use Every Day

Recently Pinterest announced the launch of Pinterest Lite, a Progressive Web Application aimed to improve user experience for users in low-bandwidth regions in Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, by significantly saving the storage space and reducing download time.

34. Debugging Go Applications Inside Kubernetes From IDE

When your application only works with api expose by kubernetes, you can simply launch your application from IDE in debug mode and debug your application. But when your application needs to connect to other services or components which are only available inside the Kubernetes cluster then this solution will not work.

35. Using Python in Geotechnical Engineering

Learn Python and groundhog to build computational applications in geotechnical engineering.

36. Senior Engineers Are Becoming Failure Designers

That's the mark of a modern senior engineer: not just writing code that works when everything goes right, but designing resilience into every line

37. 8 Things To Learn To Get Started With Python: A Newbie’s Guide

For quite a while, software development has been among the most well-paid and demanded jobs in the labor markets across the world. Now, when 2019 is running to the end and we are standing on the threshold of the new year, this tendency seems to stay with us.

38. Understanding the Blockchain: The Foundation of Cryptocurrency

Have you still not embarked on your process to start understanding crypto? Do it now before its too late! Learning Blockchain provides that first step you need.

39. Hexagonal Architecture: Use Case Part II

First of all, if you didn't read the previous post, please read first part before you jump into this section

40. Best Resources for Software Engineers

Top websites and creators for software engineers and developers. My choice of resources to stay up to date with the latest programming tools and solutions.

41. This Is What I Learnt After Making Over 1,000 Code Reviews

This story was originally published on my blog. If you're interested in this kind of content, feel free to check it out and subscribe :)

42. Top Electronic Design Service Companies You Should Consider in 2020

As I can see, electronic design companies are far more undervalued by the media than the software ones. But the fact remains that the market is fairly large and continues to snowball in growth. According to the Grand View Research comprehensive report, the size of the electronic design services, combined with contract manufacturing, has reached almost $400 bln in 2018 and will grow by up to more than $650 bln by 2025.

43. Unlock the Power of ACID Properties in Databases: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability and each of these have a specific purpose when it comes to databases.

44. An Introduction to High Speed Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)

A high speed printed circuit board design provides the transmission of signals at high speeds. It's a device that transfers data at very high speeds.

45. What is a Data Reliability Engineer?

With each day, enterprises increasingly rely on data to make decisions.

46. The Good and The Bad of Ruby Development

47. A Walk-Through to Github For Beginners

And slowly github became the new facebook for coders where instead of posting pictures and life events people post code for projects and your fellow developers comment, request features and fork the code to suit there needs.Brian Doll, GitHub’s vice president of strategy says “If you look at the top 100 sites, you’ve got a handful of social sites, thirty flavors of Google with national footprints, a lot of media outlets — and GitHub”

48. Processes & Threads: The Essentials to Mastering Linux

Threads & Processes are some of the least-understood topics in Linux. Make yourself stand out by starting learning them today. See yourself transform!

49. Code Reviews Don’t Work: A Better Way to Create Software

Don't tell me about pull requests. They don't work either

50. Knowledge Work is Non-Linear—Here's How You Keep Devs Motivated

Software development might not look exhausting at first glance, but it’s one of the most consuming fields out there. Developers need to maintain steady concentration through 8-10-hour working days, approach tasks creatively, and maintain communication with their colleagues. Even top talent gets bored and burnt out.

51. From Automation to Autonomy: How AI is Transforming Site Reliability Engineering

This is the real story of where operations is headed.

52. My First Panic Attack And Subsequent Relationship With Depression And Anxiety - Part I

The first panic attack I had was back in 2015. During an official college trip with a few college friends.

53. Are You Telling The Story of Your Software?

This is Minard's analysis of the fall of Napoleon's Grand Army at the French invasion of Russia in 1812, considered a masterpiece of analytic design:

54. What Noticeable Features You Should Expect in Vue v3 Release

Since the release of Vue 2, Vuejs has grown rapidly. It is receiving awesome reviews from the users. Vuejs was one of the most popular Javascript front end frameworks in 2018 along with the giants like Angular and React. And now Vue 3 is all set to release. For the last few months, it has been in talks across various parts of the world.

55. The Top Essential Skills for JavaScript Developers

JavaScript reigns supreme. The flexible programming language is currently ranked as the most commonly used programming language in the world by GitHub. It is also instrumental in web development--an estimated 95% of websites utilize the language in some way.

56. How to Distinguish the Abilities of A Product Manager from A Product Engineer

Who’s a product engineer, anyway? It’s sometimes hard to distinguish between a product manager and a product engineer. In this post, we’ll have a try to figure it out.

57. Next Time You Prompt, Try Engineering it

A reflection on building with purpose in the age of AI — turning prompts into products, visuals into systems, and trends into engineered artifacts.

58. Evolution of Python Programming

Python was originally conceptualized by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s as a member of the National Research Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. Initially, it was designed as a response to the ABC programming language that was also foregrounded in the Netherlands. Among the main features of Python compared to the ABC language was that Python had exception handling and was targeted for the Amoeba operating system (go Python!).

59. Complete #100DaysOfCloud for Free On Cloud Academy

A 100-day commitment to learning facilitated by Cloud Academy. Sign up, complete the Cloud Marathon and your education is free.

60. Student Spaceshot Rocket Clubs — Part 1 (USA)

In the past few years, liquid propulsion and spaceshot rocket clubs have popped up at high schools and colleges worldwide. Let's take a look at some of them.

61. What are the Top Startups in Africa?

HackerNoon.com hosted Startups of The Year to highlight the backbone of the future - tech startups!

62. How to Use ES6 with Webpack

This article is for those who use ES6 syntax along with Webpack. After I started using Javascript with Webpack I met a lot of unexpected errors. All of them were because of ES6 syntax usage. Those of you who decided to start javascript using "Classes" or you need to use ESlint I'll try to explain how to save some time. In short, it's all about loaders.

63. How to Extract the Maximum Value From Logs

Logging for observability across languages, frameworks, and packages is challenging. A thoughtful approach to log design, metrics, and retention will help.

64. Understanding Basic Programming Concepts: Objects & Processes

Through my studies I get exposed to a lot of programming. This is useful to solve technical problems, but I also like to think how the concepts can be applied to different domains and everyday life.

65. Maps on the Web Using React and Mapbox

I will illustrate how to use Mapbox with React and explain how these technologies work together.

66. Complexity is the enemy of software engineering

The key to long-lived, maintainable software is simpler than you think.

67. True Engineering Enablement Starts with Onboarding

Engineering enablement cannot start with the tools and the process; great enablement must start with the engineers. And your engineers start with onboarding.

68. How to define and spend your tech debt budget

If you’ve ever been involved in sprint planning and argued to carve out time to pay back some technical debt (i.e. define a tech debt budget), this is how to go about it.

69. The Five Step Approach for Tackling Complex Problems

“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” - Albert Einstein

70. Scaling to Infinity: Innovating the Worker Queue

When building applications, it's common to be coordinating frontends, databases, worker queues, and APIs. Traditionally, queues and APIs are kept separate; queues handle long-running or CPU intensive tasks and APIs serve quick responses to keep applications snappy.

71. jQuery vs JavaScript: Why We Decide to Remove jQuery From Our Templates

We at Flatlogic create top Vue, Angular and React admin templates for businesses to manage, analyze and visualize their data and one of the best React Native mobile templates

72. What Are PID Controllers and How Do They Work?

The article covers the basics of PID controllers: what PID is, how it works, its advantages and disadvantages, and application peculiarities.

73. How to Become a Better Engineer: Steel Threads

Learn a software design approach that will make you a better engineer.

74. Science is About Truth; Engineering is About Compromise

The Fuller: A Unit of Humanitarian Invention Impact

[75. Where Can Dreams Take You?

The Art of Teaching Associative Thinking to Machines](https://hackernoon.com/where-can-dreams-take-you-the-art-of-teaching-associative-thinking-to-machines-by6r3yme) The idea of LensAI was born last year sometime in May. If you've missed Part I of my story, you can read it here -> How We Taught Artificial Intelligence to Sell.

76. Beyond Coding: The 5 Must-Have Skills to Have If You Want to Become a Senior Programmer

Creating code is only a small part of what programmers do. To become a complete senior dev, you must master also these 5 other skills.

77. How to Build a Circuit: Breadboards for Beginners

When learning how to build a circuit, the breadboard is one of the most basic components. A breadboard is a rectangular plastic board with many small jacks.

78. Prompt Engineers Can Make $335K a Year: What Are They and How to Become One

It’s hard to say what the job market will look like in the next several years, but it seems that prompt engineers will continue to be in high demand.

79. 5 Important Lessons I Learnt As A Software Engineer

Recently I completed 2 years as a full-time software engineer. I started working since December 2017 at a company name Hullo.ai which was a small 10 people startup where I had to work on a multitude of things. In my first month, I had to write a Go server and dockerize it. My learning curve for the first month was something like this.

80. How to Auto-Generate Interactive Coding Videos for Software Developers

Completing a passion project that seemed impossible.

81. What Does a Blockchain Engineer Do

Given the vast potential of blockchain technology, it's no surprise that there is high demand for workers with blockchain engineering skills.

82. Replacing Apache Hive, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL with Apache Doris

Simplicity is the best policy.

83. Top 6 AutoCAD Advanced Concepts You Need to Know

AutoCAD is amongst the most widely used CAD systems worldwide. It was published as Autodesk's flagship product in 1982.

84. Top 10 Software Development Companies Working with Automotive AI

Make choosing an AI software development partner easier for yourself: check out this top 10 selection of industry-approved teams.

85. 2 Billion Requests, 100ms Deadlines, $10k a Month: Engineering a Lean Global RTB System

Inside a lean RTB system processing 350M daily requests with sub-100ms latency, built by a 3-person team on a $10k cloud budget.

86. Logic Vs. Emotion: What Really Drives Decision Making

How emotions, ego and aspirations influence technological choices. How to answer these psychological need with an objective method.

87. 40 Must-Known Laravel Tools and Resources

Laravel learning resources

88. Biocomputing: A Brief Overview

Biocomputing - a cutting-edge field of technology - operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, and computer science. It seeks to use cells or their sub-component molecules (such as DNA or RNA) to perform functions traditionally performed by an electronic computer.

89. Biomechanics for Dummies

The involvement of mechanical engineers in medical environments creates increased efficiency for patients in defining the proper treatment.

90. 7 Things I’ve Learned as a Software Developer

In this Blog Post, I share some of the things I have learned so far while working as a Software Developer.

91. Building a Slack Integration for Your SaaS Notification System

In this post, we offer details for developers who are planning to build a Slack integration for their notification system.

92. Meet the HackerNoon Top Writers: Writing Through the Noise of AI with Albert Lie

Meet Albert Lie, Co-Founder & CTO of Forward Labs, in his interview with HackerNoon Writers Spotlight, talking about writing amid the Noise of AI.

93. 10 Web Designing Institute In Chennai To Learn Web Development

Web designing is where you design your UX/UI with blasts of colors, attractive structure, font and text styles, images, graphics for a well interactive web page for your user. In order to stand out of the crowd, you need to acquire adequate knowledge in different areas of the field.

94. Studying Engineering in the UK: What Courses and Which Universities?

Engineering is a vast and complex subject that students need help with during their academic courses.

95. Building Your Own Toolbox with Extension Methods in C#

Extension methods are one of the coolest features of C#. It allows our custom methods to be used on the objects without needing to extend or change the underlying class.

96. Proxy vs Reverse Proxy

Proxy is an application or computer that mimics a user on the internet. Reverse proxy is the "REVERSE" of proxy that is used by server to route traffic.

97. My Experience with Length Control for a DC Actuator

It all started when we ordered an actuator, with an encoder, from China for a project. But something went wrong, and a month later, we received actuators withou

98. Processing Text with State Machines

Learn how finite state machines or automatons can be used to process text with nodejs

99. Developing, Packaging and Distributing a Python Library

How to use new packaging standards with virtual environment tools — adapted from the official documentations of python.org and Pipenv

100. Sensor-based Control in Cobots: Its Opportunities and Challenges

Introduction of the very basic formulation of the major sensor-servo problem, and then presenting its most common approaches like touch-based,

101. In Brief: What You Should Expect from A Full-Stack Dev

Hiring a full stack development company or developer reduces the need to hire too many resources in-house for product development. Broadly speaking, the software development process is divided into two parts:

102. The Rise of Reusable SQL-based Data Modeling Tools and DataOps services

The resurgence of SQL-based RDBMS

103. How Should I Prepare For a Technical Interview?

Red flag: Individuals who immediately jump into solutions and coding before the interviewer gives them the green light.

104. The 4 Mindsets of a Great Startup Engineer

For those looking to leap into the world of startups, here are the four essential mindsets that will make you a successful startup engineer.

105. Binary Lifting and Its Applications

Binary Lifting and its use in finding Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA). Explore this amazing algorithm that speeds up ancestor queries in the tree data structure.

106. Engineering Management: The Nine Challenges

“I would describe an engineering manager as a Sergeant Major. They are very much part of the mission delivery team and manage a group of experts to perform specific tasks,” says David Ives, Engineering Manager at Pusher.

107. How To Become A Blockchain Developer With Jimmy Song

One of the hardest things about running or scaling any technology business is finding good developers especially when it comes to Blockchain. Everyone wants ninja engineers who can pull a rabbit out of a hat, but they are unicorns. The ones I know are either founders, co-founders, CTO’s or in some senior engineering role being paid a ransom.

108. A Simple Mistake That Costs Engineers Time and Money

This expensive trap is easily avoided by approaching problems from the right mindset.

109. USAF's New Strategy for Future Tech

Key takeaways from Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics — at Air Force Techstars 2020 Demo Day:

110. If you’re still using GitFlow I feel bad for you son (or woman)

I got 99 problems but my branching strategy ain't one.

111. What Can IoT Tech do for the Automobile Industry?

The (IoT) is a setup that takes all the physical computing devices and connects them to the Internet, providing them with UID and the ability to transfer data.

112. Top Machine Learning Algorithms

For newbies, machine learning algorithms may seem too boring and complicated. Well, to some extent, this is true. In most cases, you stumble upon a few-page description for each algorithm and yes, it’s hard to find time and energy to deal with each and every detail. However, if you truly, madly, deeply want to be an ML-expert, you have to brush up your knowledge regarding it and there is no other way to be. But relax, today I will try to simplify this task and explain core principles of 10 most common algorithms in simple words (each includes a brief description, guides, and useful links). So, breath in, breath out, and let’s get started!

113. How to Go About Building a WebAssembly Language for Fun and Profit

This guide provides a simple overview designed to help get your feet wet in building languages and exploring the inner workings of WebAssembly

114. What Is Harness Engineering?

How stepping away from the keyboard became the most powerful thing a builder can do.

115. A Path to a Successful IoT Startup

There are so many industries that are flourishing today, but we’d say the most promising area is anything connected with the IoT — the Internet of Things. Why? Because IoT is taking over more and more areas of our lives, starting from the simple act of connecting your phone to your TV set. For this reason, let’s take a look at:

116. 10 Best VS Code Extensions to Improve Your Productivity

I asked developers in my team what VS Code extensions they use to boost their productivity, and here’s what they said.

117. Your SaaS User Communications: Don't Overlook the Security Issues

In this article, we cover why you should look closely at how secure your customer communications are and implement strict security measures for emails, push not

118. The Non-Technical Founder

I have been speaking to Coworking spaces, Incubators and Accelerators across London and it has become apparent that there is a common problem arising from non-technical startup founders. This transcends the culture, this impacts more than just female or minority-led startups.

119. Bye Bye Google: How I Botched My Company's Launch After Leaving

I like to analyze my past work through the prism of evaluating my mistakes (I’m sure my therapist would have a field day with that one). I launched my first publicly available engineering project in early December and as George W. Bush once said, “Mistakes were made”.

120. Helping My Engineering Friend Build a Text Classifier

My engineering friend, let’s address him as Mr. Wolf 🐺 (identify hidden), requested a 1:1 call to help him fix his classification model.

121. The Brain, The Body, and The Blue Screen: Why I’m Quitting Hardware

I have a visual disability—20/400 vision in my right eye and zero peripheral vision. This makes hardware terrifying.

122. Elegance as a Law of Harmony: An Engineer’s View of Tech Business Growth and Management

Nataliia Zub shared her perspective about secure digital transformation, risk management in times of crisis, as well as Engineering Leadership as a mindset.

123. How To Prepare For A Technical Interview

As an engineer you will face several controversial situations when looking for a new job. I've been there too and now I'm sharing what worked for me.

124. 4 Core Principles of Pragmatic Engineering

The following principles will save you time, money, energy, and increase the probability of your organization’s success.

125. A Simple CDN Speed Test Script in Python

Here is a simple python script I use to speed test CDNs. It’s open-sourced under an MIT license.

126. Daily Standup Meeting Is Wasting Your Time

Here is how I saved my team 2200 hours annually not to do it.

127. How Frontier Labs Use FP8 to Train Faster and Spend Less

Naively casting to FP8 destroys your numerics. Here's the per-tensor and blockwise quantization mechanics that make it actually work at pretraining scale.

128. How to Build a WebAssembly Language for Fun and Profit

The final phase of our compiler is code generation. This phase takes the AST and converts it to a set of executable instructions. In our case, WebAssembly.

129. A CyberSecurity Mindset May Involve Being The Guy With The Most Negative Attitude

We cannot solve the problem if we use the wrong mindset. A security mindset is risk-based, contextual, and ultimately ensures nothing happens.

130. Bitcoin Ultimatum – The Next Generation Bitcoin by Nikolay Udianskyi

Cryptocurrencies have proven to be the most innovative technology to be developed in a while. From making payments and settling remittances to serving as a hedge for investments and helping to transfer assets over a secure and anonymous network, there are various uses of cryptocurrencies- and each of them continued to get developed almost as the days go by.

131. What is a Perfect Duty Engineer?

Tools and skills for great duty and on-call for engineers.

132. How to Become a Quality Assurance Engineer

A Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is a professional who tests software during the entire development process.

133. The Big O

The Big O is a way to measure how well your code solves a problem

134. Are Stablecoins Actually Stable?

Unlike highly volatile popular cryptocurrencies, stablecoins are virtual assets that maintain their value since they are pegged to less volatile assets.

135. How to Become a DevOps Engineer in 2022 (with Resources)

Want to become a DevOps Engineer? Here is a roadmap and resources to become a DevOps engineer.

136. How to build a Slack App more reliable then Slack

When I started working on a start-up nine months ago, this statement didn’t satisfy me or my co-founders:

137. Computer Architect Creates History: One Of The Youngest Ever To Receive Elite Engineering Accolade

Dr. Akash Sridhar, a top computer architecture expert has made history by being awarded the prestigious title of Fellow by the Institution of Engineering and Te

138. Rails and Laravel Explained With Basic MVC Structure

Ok, first of all, this isn’t an article about which framework is better since they have different base languages.

139. The Key Differences Between Consumer and Industrial Hardware Development

The term “industrial electronics” refers to any electrical equipment or system used for manufacturing goods or participating in this process indirectly.

140. 5 Ways to Get Kids Interested in Stem

Studying STEM has become crucial for students who want to be part of an innovative, rapidly growing industry with excellent career prospects.

141. How to Build Tech with Less

Co-founder and engineering lead of a fast-growth tech company explains how he's built innovative tech with just a team of four.

142. Startups of The Year: Meet the Engineering Industry

This series will detail our Startups of the Year key industries and demonstrate how HackerNoon can help you explore them further. Today's Industry: Engineering!

143. Top 3 Metrics For Engineering Team Performance

What’s the overall performance of your engineering team? Let’s look at how we can improve your team’s performance.

144. Incorporating Art into Engineering by Introducing the STEAM Approach

There is a perception that science, technology, and the arts are separate vocations. The STEAM approach incorporates the arts and sciences.

145. Code Reviews And Why They Matter For Developers Performace

We used to think that the secret to getting better at anything was directly linked to the timed dedicated to practice (we’ve all heard about the 10, 000 hours that stand between us and achieving mastery in any field) but, as in turns out, it’s not how much we practice but also how we do it. According to psychologist Andres Ericsson, “deliberate practice” is what matters and makes a huge difference in achieving expert performance.

146. How I Manufactured and Sold Electronic Badges - Part 1: Designing and Prototyping the Board

My experience designing and manufacturing a 'social battery' pin badge to sell online.

147. How Serverless Can Encourage Good Engineering Practices

In this article, we list the seven reasons why and how serverless computing enables useful engineering practices.

148. Jargon Is Killing Your Leadership: You Should Be Doing This Instead

Effective communication as an engineering leader is about striking the right balance between clarity and engagement.

149. Leading By Letting Go. How To Quit Disturbing Your Engineering Team From Growing

In this article, Taras Lazoriv, Advanced Software Engineer at Innovecs, shares his leadership experience and thoughts on growing an engineering team.

150. 3 Ways Personal Projects Make You A Better Developer

151. 5 Skills Every Successful ML Engineer Should Have

Uncover the five essential skills every successful machine learning engineer should have. Boost your ML engineering career with these invaluable insights.

152. How (And Why) to Determine Power Factor for Medical Devices

Power factor is classically defined as the cosine of the angle between the root mean square (RMS) AC voltage.

153. Top Five Frameworks For Hybrid App Development

Whenever the company decides to make a mobile application, the most important they are looking for efficient ways to implement the idea.

154. Why Product-Driven Teams Ship, and Engineering-Led Ones Stall

Goodness Kayode shares why product-led teams ship faster than engineering-led teams.

155. Expressing Gains in PID Controllers Through Mathematical Notation

In this paper, we analyze the mathematical representations of PID controller gains used to tune the algorithm.

156. 5 Lessons Learned from Hiring Engineers: Here’s What Talent Managers are Doing Wrong

Hiring a skilled engineer is crucial your project - that's you want to get it right. Here are 5 lessons we learned from helping companies hire engineers.

157. How Shortage of Labor Will Create More AI & Automation Careers

Automation and artificial intelligence technology are beginning to make seismic shifts in the way that things are done in today’s world. From making certain processes more streamlined to replacing humans with machinery, these forms of technology are ushering in a new age of productivity, optimization, and efficiency.

158. 200+ Software Engineers Taught Me The Best Way To Manage Technical Debt

Over the last six months, I’ve learned how the best software engineers and leaders manage technical debt. I've interviewed more than 200 experts, to understand how tech debt is handled at growing software companies.

159. Software Engineer Performance Review are a Paradox

Performance reviews play a big role in the operation of the organization.

160. Bias in development and why it's dangerous

A short story about Alice.

161. How to Make a DevOps Strategy

DevOps is a deployment process that helps automate a lot of processes that used to take a team hours to days to get through. When you are trying to get that process going, you need to know that everyone is on-board or else it won't work. Switching from Waterfall deployments to DevOps is a huge organizational change.

162. Not Too Dry: How to Showcase SDKs by Keeping Application Code Simple

Above all else, the sample apps team wanted these products to serve as teaching tools for engineers.

163. These 2 Mental Models Will Determine Whether Your AI Startup Will Last

2 Mental models for predicting which AI products will create and capture the most amount of value in the next 24 months.

164. Software Developers Can Build Beautiful Software: Here's How

Software developers can build beautiful software. A comprehensive guide detailing how developers can design beautiful and elegant software.

165. Efficient Enterprise Data Solutions With Stream Processing

Enterprise data solutions—handling myriad data sources and massive data volume—are expensive. Stream processing reduces costs and brings real-time scalability.

166. Hiring an Engineer: 7 Different Types of Engineering Interviews

These are 7 Different Types of Engineering interviews that engineers may come when searching for jobs, including those used by large companies like Google.

167. What is an AI agent?

Agentification of everything is temporary. Here is what the term "AI agent" could mean.

168. The Noonification: DeFi May Save The World Financially (8/27/2022)

8/27/2022: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!

169. Agile is "The Best"!

I was asked to answer the Quora question, “Why is the Agile model the best”.

170. A Q&A With Slack's Rukmini Reddy on Data-Driven Mentorship, Career Paths, and Belonging

Hear Rukmini Reddy's story - Slack SVP of Engineering and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

171. How Engineering Leaders Can Prioritize Code Quality

Learn why code quality matters, the most important metrics you need to manage quality, and how to track and manage code quality issues.

172. Adopt a DevOps Culture Before Looking for DevOps Engineers

Job specs for DevOps engineer jobs often mention a vast variety of duties and responsibilities. Are they hiring for a single role or a whole team?

173. Interviewing Top Talent, Made Easy

Hiring senior talent doesn’t have to be hard with this simple process.

174. Simplifying Amazon S3: A Must-Read for AWS Associate Certification

Discover essential AWS S3 knowledge for Associate AWS Solution Architects. Learn key features, use cases, and best practices to master this crucial AWS storage

175. How to Consistently Deliver Your Projects on Time: 5 Tips to Follow

The bread and butter of knowledge work is figuring out what needs to be done, in what order, and what can be cut.

176. The n8n + PostgreSQL Integration Nobody Talks About

Every tutorial covers the happy path. Nobody talks about what happens the second time your sync runs — duplicate records, Salesforce's 2,000-record pagination.

177. Finding A Software Developer Mentor When You're A Newbie

Your first job as a software developer can be very challenging. Having a mentor to discuss your industry-related challenges can be key to your career.

178. "The pandemic has literally changed my perspective towards life" – Karan Jagota, 2020 Noonie Nominee

Hacker Noon's annual Noonie awards help shine a spotlight on some of the greatest minds in tech. Head over to our awards page and nominate YOUR best people and products today at NOONIES.TECH.

179. Introduction to a Career in Data Engineering

A valuable asset for anyone looking to break into the Data Engineering field is understanding the different types of data and the Data Pipeline.

180. Happy Pride Month From HackerNoon!

A code of solidarity.

181. When It's 3AM and Your App is on Fire: How Distributed Tracing Saves the Day

Discover how distributed tracing helps developers debug complex microservices at 3AM, turning chaos into clarity in minutes, not hours.

182. How Does a Steam Turbine work?

A steam turbine is a device that converts the thermal energy of steam pressure into mechanical energy, where the steam is expanded in stages in the turbine to d

183. How CodeClimate's VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level

When global circumstances required our team to go completely remote, we knew things would be tough. Team members wouldn’t just be working from home; they’d be working from home during a time of intense fear and uncertainty, with a myriad of new concerns and distractions. We expected that engineering activity would decline as a result, and we were understanding — as our VP of Engineering, Ale Paredes, explained during a panel on working remotely through the crisis, “We're not trying to behave as if it's business as usual, because it's not business as usual.”

But when Ale checked the team’s productivity metrics in Velocity, our engineering analytics platform, she was surprised by what she found. After we made the switch to a distributed workflow, many engineers actually started working more. Still, despite logging more time in the codebase, they were getting less done.

To find out why the team wasn’t making progress, Ale dug deeper into the data. Not only did she find answers, she used that information to develop better ways to support the team.

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185. Model Paradigm for Engineering

Model-Based Engineering (MBE) is getting more attention these days and in order to explore it, I came up with this certain sort of a roadmap.

186. The Difference Between ML Engineers & Data Scientists

Explore the differences between MLOps Engineer vs Data Scientist roles, focusing on their expertise, collaboration, and model lifecycle.

187. Navigating Startup Storms: The Crucial Role of a Product Engineer

Explore the rollercoaster of startups, the role of a 'Product Engineer,' and crucial lessons for early-stage success.

188. The Devils 0666 File Creation Permission

As far as I can tell, this is hard-coded into standard utilities. I straced both a touch creating a new file and a mkdir creating a new directory.

The touch trace produced this:

189. What are Default Interface Methods in C# 8.0?

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190. From Microsoft Teams to Democratizing AI for Small Businesses: The Journey Of Vinod Kumar

Explore the remarkable journey of Vinod Kumar, an engineer whose passion for computers led to transformative contributions.

191. How to Win as an Associate Software Engineer

Being a new engineer can be challenging, but you can rock the role if you know how. Hint: not deleting the production database helps.

192. AI: Concise Prompts Are the New Command Line for Network Engineers

Discover how network engineers can leverage concise AI prompts as the modern command line, boosting efficiency and automation in network management.

193. Beyond Numbers: Embracing Contextual Intelligence in Engineering Leadership

This article explores the gap between engineering teams and their leaders, highlighting the importance of cohesion and alignment

194. How Computers Are Designed for Extreme Environments

Some computers have to operate in extreme cold and heat, and even in space. How are these devices designed to withstand such environments?

195. The 10x value isn't all originating from the engineer, though

There's been a lot of discussion on Twitter recently about so-called 10x engineers.

196. What Career Path Should Software Engineers Take: Startup vs. Big Company

Startup vs. Big Company. This article outlines key questions to ask yourself before making your next career move as a software engineer.

197. Here's How to Escape the Hectic Assembly Line

To address the work-life balance problem, there are several options we can explore, such as delegating tasks within the team or improving time management

198. How to Prepare for a Technical, Software Engineering Interview

Technical interviews are daunting, here is a guide to help you through the process.

199. Motion Without Translation: Why Fast Teams Slowly Lose the Plot

Why fast-moving teams lose alignment without realizing it—and how execution velocity can quietly erase shared understanding.

200. How Ricky Zhang Is Pioneering the Hybrid Role of Design Engineering

Ricky Zhang is a design engineer at Mintlify, a San Francisco-based company that uses AI to help developers create and maintain documentation.

201. Test Smarter, Not Harder: How Purpose-Built Test Management Tools Outperform Spreadsheets

Why modern test management tools outperform spreadsheets when organising data.

202. The Off-Ramp Part 1: Training Design and Existential Challenges

An off-ramp is needed for tech training to continue its relevance in the post-employment age. This will be a fundamental re-design of training.

203. The Limitations of Text Embeddings in RAG Applications: A Deep Engineering Dive

Text embeddings are a powerful tool, but they are not a silver bullet.

204. Launching the Impossible Engineering Challenge

Currently, in order to promote the open innovation license, I have decided to launch an engineering challenge.

205. Fueling Success: Empowering Engineering Teams through Ownership and Accountability

This text discusses the importance of trust, ownership, and accountability in engineering teams and how they contribute to fostering growth and development.

206. Why Implementing Modular Robotic Systems in the CPG Sector is Crucial in 2023

An interview with Svyat Stesin, the CEO of rexR, a company that designs, produces, and implements high-speed industrial robots and robotic systems

207. Incident Management Process: How to Train For The Tech-Fu

A well-known expression states “Hope for the best and prepare for the worst” — I was repeating it to myself over and over again while traveling between countries and offices with my 6 hours long, 220 slides, just-theory-no-practice incident management training. It was a fantastic experience, and I got great feedback. But today, three years later, I think it was one of the most stupid ideas of mine.

208. AI Is Making Our Concrete Buildings And Bridges Safer

AIs application to civil engineering and concrete construction is the future of structural safety. There have been various successful & innovative applications.

209. Courier's Journey to Becoming HIPAA-Compliant

This article explains why SaaS companies should be HIPAA compliant, why this is important for our company, and the steps we took to get here.

210. Why I Spent Years Writing a Children’s Book on Data Science

I wrote a children's book on data science to inform others who have a hard time understanding data science and machine learning concepts, especially kids!

211. Meet Fedor Yaremenko: Senior Software Engineer and Glider Pilot

Hi, my name is Fedor Yaremenko. I have 10+ years of experience in software development. I have developed Java enterprise applications for the past eight years.

212. Beyond the Hype: Why a “Trust Gap” Forced My Custom Voice AI Architecture

Learn how a Fortune 500 IT Director bridges the "Trust Gap" in Voice AI with a modular "Buy Fast, Build Safe" architecture designed for regulated industries.

213. My Experience with Scala

If you are learning scala or wondering if you should use for new project in your organisation, I suggest that you do. As always, see if scala and scala’s ecosy

214. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon's Contributor Ally Haire, Developer Relations Engineer

I’m Ally and I work as a Developer Relations Engineer - currently in the decentralized web space (aka web3).

215. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon's Contributor David Finson, Software Engineer

I channel that passion by working on open-source projects like the Apifi Java GraphQL framework...

216. Meet the Writer: Danielle Gruber, Lover of Brains & Student of Engineering

My name's Danielle and I'm an electrical engineering major with a passion for neuroscience.

217. Can You Land a Junior Role as a Dev Ops Engineer?

You'll see "junior" level DevOps and SRE roles. You'll also see several people asking how to get into DevOps or SRE as a junior-level candidate.

218. Insights and Tips From a Lead Engineer

Top tips from an engineer communication, deliver results, read code, solve problems, stay curious, and maintain work-life balance etc. to succeed in career.

219. On the Exportation of Machinery

Thus, therefore, the machine-maker is himself interested in giving the first advantage of any new improvement to his own countrymen.

220. Diego Landi Is Bringing AI Discipline to America’s Housing Infrastructure

Diego Landi is applying AI, engineering rigor, and systems thinking to modernize affordable housing and construction delivery in South Florida.

221. The History and Future of CAD in Engineering

The first CAD hardware system, the Dimension III Systems from Calma, was operable with a keyboard and stylus.

222. Solving Access to Finance for Underserved Communities: Interview with Supratik Mukherjee

Supratik Mukherjee is the Product Lead at Camino Financial, the first AI-powered Community Development Financial Institution (“neo-CDFI).

223. Engineering and Product Teams: Are They Partners or Frenemies?

The engineering team and product team cooperate and partner with each other. The deadlines of projects often trigger conflicts.

224. 183 Stories To Learn About Engineering

Learn everything you need to know about Engineering via these 183 free HackerNoon stories.

225. Startups of The Year 2024: 9,686 Startups Nominated in the Manufacturing Industry

HackerNoon is pleased to announce the nominees for Startups of The Year, featuring the most innovative companies in the Manufacturing Industry.

226. The "No-Code" Scaling Paradox: Why Your Frankenstein Architecture Will Eventually Fail

An architectural analysis of why No-Code tools fail at scale, focusing on API latency, technical debt, and the ROI of custom software development.

227. From Breadboard to Classroom: The Long Journey of Educational Hardware Prototypes

From messy breadboards to polished classroom tools - a firsthand look at the real engineering challenges behind turning educational hardware ideas into reality.

228. How to Start a Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Club at Your University

You should start a student Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Club at your University! This is how and why.

229. Tips for Engineering Graduates

Mechanical Engineering Graduates, here are some tips to kick-start your career. Because we know how difficult and challenging it is in this domain, with so many unanswered questions, especially for beginners.

1/6/2026: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!

231. Startups of the Year 2024: Engineering Interview

Explore the top engineering startups of 2024, driving innovation with cutting-edge solutions and technologies across various engineering disciplines.

232. On the Effect of Taxes and of Legal Restrictions upon Manufactures

It appears to have been collected with care, and contains, in a single sheet of paper, a body of facts of the greatest importance.

233. On the Future Prospects of Manufactures, as Connected with Science

I shall here content myself with referring to that work.

234. Should Anyone be Called a DevOps Engineer?

DevOps is all the the rage insert fancy clothes and glass of champagne. Interestingly enough, many organizations are hiring for it and have no idea what its pur

235. On a New System of Manufacturing

Every person concerned in the factory would have an immediate interest in preventing any waste or mismanagement in all the departments.

236. Sources of the Advantages arising from Machinery and Manufactures

A country must, however, have reached a high degree of civilization before it will have approached the limit of this economy.

237. The Invisible Hardware behind Interactive Ed-Tech: An Engineer's Perspective

Explore how sensors, microcontrollers, and LEDs inside sensory wall panels shape interactive learning experiences in Ed-Tech.

238. Proper Circumstances for the Application of Machinery

The boldness which characterizes this work, the sagacity and skill displayed in all its arrangements, have excited the wonder of every person who has seen it.

239. On Contriving Machinery

This will most frequently arise from the circumstance of its producing its work at a greater expense than that at which it can be made by other methods.

240. How Engineering Teams Can Leverage the Power of Metrics

Ever wondered what key metrics other engineering teams are tracking? The short answer: it varies completely. Even within the same organization, different teams

241. The present volume may be considered as one of the consequences

The difficulty of understanding the processes of manufactures has unfortunately been greatly overrated.

242. On the Division of Labour

A manager, who has the general knowledge of all that is to be done, and who may be assisted by one or more skilful persons.

243. Why Application Performance Monitoring Matters

Ensuring that a system and application are performing the way they're supposed to isn't anything new.

244. 8 Unsolved Carbon Markets' Problems That Engineers Need To Get Behind And Solve

I think about this conversation I had with Paul a lot. It kicked off what has now been over three years of imaginative, grueling, wonderful, painful, mind-blowing, and confounding work-- all of which took place alongside the minds of amazing co-founders, teammates, and advisors.