Rachel by the Bay (https://rachelbythebay.com/) has long impressed me as someone who clearly is deep in the actual work of systems, day in and day out, and can write well about it.
Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as well, and has amazing talent for teaching: https://jvns.ca/
Kellan Elliott-McCrea (https://laughingmeme.org/) has given the world some of the better advice on the hardest parts of software scaling, which is of course scaling the human organizations. New grads are virtually always underestimating that part of the work; eventually you realize the hard problems are usually social and not technical.
i've followed Rachel and Julia for a long time, but didn't know about Kellan - thanks so much for that.
re: human org scaling - true and this was the most surprising thing for me when i was running the platform org at discord. companies ship their org charts whether they like it or not. and refactoring org charts correctly, at scale, is essentially untested in the modern era
Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as well, and has amazing talent for teaching: https://jvns.ca/
Kellan Elliott-McCrea (https://laughingmeme.org/) has given the world some of the better advice on the hardest parts of software scaling, which is of course scaling the human organizations. New grads are virtually always underestimating that part of the work; eventually you realize the hard problems are usually social and not technical.