Here is a incomplete list of creators or companies with good content

Blogs I like

Rachel's Blog is full of realistic cynicism. Dan Luu, is always insightful. Julia Evans, her short exploratory blogs helped me. Bruce Dawson, he always shows interesting perf problems. Matklad, writes succinct articles about Rust and Zig. Gankra, on point with the programming language analysis.

Articles I like

This section is not ordered in any way, so please search for either the Author's name, the company name or the respective paper or blog post.

Rachelbythebay

Probably my favorite series so far, how releasing stuff to a massive fleet broke stuff.

Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff Moving fleet software releases to a massively sharded scheme Rolling out the "push train"

And some other gems from her

Replacing "scripter mentality" code Reaching a quorum of machines [Looking for the duct tape]

And a special shoutout to the random numbers series

Fly.io

They have excellent explanations of what actually happens under the hood.

The 5-hour CDN, by Kurt Mackey Docker without Docker, by Thomas Ptaecek Sandboxing and Workload isolation, by Thomas Ptacek [Carving the Scheduler Out of the Orchestrator], by Thomas Ptacek [Making Machines move], by Thomas Ptacek API Tokens: A tedious Survey, by Thomas Ptacek [Macaroons, ???], by Thomas Ptacek

The whole SQLite series is also outstanding, as someone who spent a loooooooong time looking at the source code.

SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees,
How SQLite Helps You Do ACID,
How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency,
How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works, by Ben Johnson

Cloudflare

Other

[Build Systems], by Name [Turing incomplete languages], by Neil Mitchell [Kubernetes is our generations Multics], by Andy Chu [I want off Mr. Golangs Wild Ride], by Amos Wenger [Other Golang Flame Article], by Amos Wenger [The Success and Failure of Ninja], by Evan Martin [Futures, Generators Series], by WithoutBoats [Static Languages Complexity] by Hirrolot [Rust Async Sucks] by Hirrolot. People can read their manager's mind by Yossi Kreini [Our Dependency Problem], by Russ Cox

And here is a incomplete list of my favorite talks

[What is C++], Chandler Carruth and Titus Winters [What are Languages], Titus Winters [Using C++ as a live at Head Language], Titus Winters [LLVM Substrates], Nicolai Hähnle [What did my Compiler do for me today], Matt Godbolt [Using C++ in three ways], Matt Godbolt

[Why static Languages suffer from complexicity]: