The HeyDevJob Blog

Notes on getting hired as an engineer, the changing shape of the developer portfolio, and what real production work looks like.

Every post here is written by a working engineer and leans practical: real commands, real trade-offs, and the war stories behind them rather than recycled theory. You'll find deep-dives on debugging production systems - the kind of incident you actually get paged for - hands-on guides to the skills that get you hired across DevOps, backend, data, security, and AI, and honest takes on how hiring is changing: what a portfolio needs to look like now, and why proof of shipped work beats a polished resume when knowing how to code is no longer enough. New posts land regularly - subscribe via RSS to follow along.