Archive - The True Engineer

April 2025

The Four Golden Signals: What Google Engineering Team Taught Me

What SRE at Google taught me about watching over systems

Apr 27 •

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6 Painful Mistakes I Made in System Design Interviews

So you don’t have to

Apr 20 •

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3 Books That Made Me a 10x Engineer

What these books taught me that tutorials never could

Apr 13 •

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One Hidden Skill That Makes You Thrive in Tech (Hint: It’s Not Coding)

Why the best engineers succeed before they even write a line of code

Apr 6 •

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January 2025

10 Lessons From the Journey: What I Wish My Younger Software Engineer Self Knew

If you could step into a time machine and visit your younger self, what advice would you give?

Jan 25 •

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