Steve Yegge

"Platforms" rant; long-form engineering essays

Yegge is a software engineer who has held senior roles at Amazon, Google, and Sourcegraph. He built a following through decades of unusually candid, long-form essays on programming languages, career advice, and organisational dysfunction. His 2011 internal memo — accidentally made public — dissecting Amazon's platform discipline versus Google's became one of the most-cited pieces of engineering writing on the internet.