The True Engineer
Adlet BalzhanovBig Tech Senior Engineer sharing short (max. 5 min read), weekly posts to help you level up fast
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 40 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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The Moving Floor
Most engineers think careers are ladders.
You start at the bottom, improve your skills, work harder than everyone else, and slowly climb upward through merit. The assumption underneath most career advice is: become exceptional enough, and...
Takeaways from “On Writing Well”
Engineers like to think of code as something you refine. You remove what isn’t needed, simplify what is, and try to leave it in a state where the next person doesn’t have to struggle to understand it.
And then we sit down to write.
The do...
SQL vs NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026
Modern databases are all good enough. If your system is falling over, it is almost never because Postgres is too weak or Mongo cannot keep up.
When the SQL vs. NoSQL question comes up, that’s how you avoid sounding like you’re quoting a 20...
4 Things I Wish I Knew Starting a Tech Career Now
I would have been forever grateful if someone gave me this advice when I was just graduating.
The "Now What?" trap
Many engineers very early in their careers think they should become Engineering Managers at any cost. They take on any...
The True Engineer: Compiled 2025
2025 marked a huge milestone for The True Engineer newsletter. Here are some stats showing how far we have come this year:
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of subscribers (from 37 → 3402)
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number of reads in 2025 (73.3K)
When I started writing in December 20...
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