As a CTO or tech leader, staying current with industry best practices is essential. We've curated 72 of the most valuable articles from 2024-2026 covering everything from building engineering culture to technical leadership and team productivity. Whether you're hiring developers, scaling teams, or improving processes, these resources will help you lead more effectively.
1. Engineering Team Culture (10 Articles)
Team culture creates a safe space for productive collaboration, transparent communication, and better releases. Everyone aligns towards the same engineering habits and practices. But how can we create such a culture among engineers and cross-functional teams?
Top Engineering Culture Resources:
Setting Engineers Up for Success (Skyscanner)
How Skyscanner created clarity in competencies and pathways to progression
Does High Velocity Lead to Burnout?
Stack Overflow's insights on velocity vs. sustainability
What a Healthy Team Looks Like
Practical indicators of team health and psychological safety
Building an Engineering-First Culture
How to prioritize technical excellence while delivering value
Working with Very Confident People
Strategies for navigating challenging team dynamics
Motivating Developers to Care About Documentation
Building a documentation culture in engineering teams
Spotify Engineering Culture Essentials
Beyond squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds
Creating a Culture of Engineering Excellence
Standards, practices, and continuous improvement
Build Your Startup's Culture (First Round)
Diagnostic tools to thoughtfully build and evaluate culture
2. Hiring & Onboarding (9 Articles)
Tech hiring is challenging. Sometimes it takes months to fill critical roles. When you finally find someone you like, you need to build effective onboarding and integrate new team members seamlessly. At Boundev, we understand this challenge—that's why our rigorous vetting process helps companies skip months of screening.
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3. Engineering Approaches (11 Articles)
This section covers interesting guides on TDD, DevSecOps, refactoring practices, scaling infrastructure, and tips on how engineering leaders set up foundations for technical excellence. Many insights from companies like Uber and Slack.
Code Quality & Refactoring
- • Measuring refactoring success
- • Three clean code tips for 50% more efficiency
- • Taking tech debt into account when roadmapping
Architecture & Design
- • Domain-driven design introduction
- • Designing secure APIs
- • Choosing technologies wisely
Infrastructure & DevOps
- • Trunk and branches model (Uber case study)
- • Mobile developer experience at Slack
- • Early security for startups
Development Practices
- • Pull request paradox: merge faster
- • Stop writing API functions
- • Product hurricane maps
4. Managing Engineering Teams (26 Articles)
For many technical people, people management is hard. Our energy levels drop from too many calls and context-switching. We must learn to be introverted managers who support teams and have enough confidence to challenge people when needed.
Top Management Topics Covered
Leadership Skills
- • Being an introverted leader
- • Leading as an engineering manager
- • Technical leadership comprehensive guide
- • 17 traits of awesome tech leads
- • Six tips for staying technical as CTO
Team Performance
- • Dealing with underperforming engineers
- • Running effective retrospectives
- • Measuring and optimizing delivery
- • Company metrics, team KPIs, OKRs
- • Why goal cascades are harmful
Team Development
- • Best managers coach, don't fix
- • Helping teams face uncertainty
- • Sharing interesting stuff as tool
- • Investing in internal documentation
- • Product engineering todos
Agile & Process
- • Five P's of agility
- • Writing project status reports
- • Using energy levels effectively
- • Interview a VP of engineering
- • Creativity in engineering
5. Career & Productivity Tips (7 Articles)
Small things to become more productive with the right work setup, useful tools, hotkeys, development resources, and habits. From Git workflows to GitHub repositories worth bookmarking.
Stop Lying to Yourself – You Will Never "Fix It Later"
The harsh truth about technical debt and procrastination
How I'm a Productive Programmer with Memory of a Fruit Fly
Systems and tools to work effectively despite memory limitations
How to Deal with Information Overload
A leader's guide to managing communications effectively
Git Organized: A Better Git Flow
Improved workflows for cleaner version control
Git Cheat Sheet (50 Commands + PDF)
Essential Git commands every developer should know
18 Useful GitHub Repositories Every Developer Should Bookmark
Curated list of valuable development resources
3 Obvious Mistakes I Made as a Junior Team Lead
Lessons learned from early leadership experiences
How These Resources Help CTOs & Tech Leaders
The articles above represent collective wisdom from hundreds of experienced technical leaders. They cover real-world challenges you face daily:
Building Better Teams
Learn from companies like Spotify, Skyscanner, and Uber on creating high-performing engineering cultures
Hiring Excellence
Master the art of finding, interviewing, and onboarding top engineering talent effectively
Technical Excellence
Implement best practices for architecture, code quality, security, and infrastructure scaling
Why We Built Boundev for CTOs
As CTOs ourselves, we understand the challenges outlined in these 72 articles. That's why we created Boundev—to solve one of the biggest pain points: hiring great developers quickly.
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Keep Learning, Keep Growing
The 72 articles above represent just a starting point. As a CTO or tech leader, continuous learning is essential. Save this list, share it with your leadership team, and revisit these resources as your challenges evolve.
Whether you're building your first engineering team or scaling to hundreds of developers, these insights from industry leaders will help you navigate the journey more effectively.
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