🎉 Best of Level Up Coding — Top Articles of 2022
A look back at the top stories from the past year.
What a year! Thanks to our amazing authors and contributors, 2022 delivered the best content yet. Because of amazing and passionate developers like you, articles were read at an incredible rate.
Scanning the top articles, the content really fell into a few buckets:
- Becoming a better developer and finding jobs at the top tech companies
- Mastering your favorite languages and frameworks
- Increasing programming productivity
- Blockchain, even during a cryptocurrency bear market
- ChatGPT — the launch of this technology took the world by storm at the end of 2022
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🏆 Top Articles of 2022 🏆
$150,000 Amazon Engineer vs. $300,000 Google Engineer | Alexander Nguyen
Amazon Sr. Software Engineer at 27–8 important lessons I’ve learned so far in my career | Daniel Costa
The things I love about Google are the things I dislike about Google | Carlos Arguelles
The Best Engineers Think Like Investors, Not Builders | Michael Lin
How we reduced our annual server costs by 80% — from $1M to $200k — by moving away from AWS | Trey Huffine
Why Google Employees Don’t Work | Pen Magnet
Why I quit Android Development after 10 years and what I plan to do now | Martin Nowosad
Why Firefox Deserves Its Sad Decline… | FadinGeek
9 Projects You Can Do to Become a Front-End Master in 2023 | Simon Holdorf
Zuckerberg and Pichai’s Messages Are a Bad Sign for the Developers | Entreprogrammer
17 Killer GitHub Repos You Need to Save Right Now! | Ali Haider
React code conventions and best practices | Gaspar Nagy
Applying what I’ve learned in Atomic Habits to coding | Matthew Wong
5 Modern Bash Scripting Techniques That Only A Few Programmers Know | Shalitha Suranga
6 Programming Languages You Should Not Learn (and What To Learn Instead) | Clement Brian
My Junior Got Fired and Sued for Working on His Side Projects During Office hours | The woman
How I got in to Amazon, Microsoft, Google. All from studying these resources | Alexander Nguyen
The End of Programming | Matt Welsh
Programmers With These 3 Capabilities Will Be In the Highest Demand | Pen Magnet
The One Reason I Moved From Notion To Obsidian As An Engineer | David Chong
Top 20 Pandas functions you aren’t using, which you SHOULD BE using! | Muhammad Anas
ChatGPT Is Mind-Blowing — Everything You Need To Know | Jacob Ferus
Don’t Just LeetCode; Follow the Coding Patterns Instead | Arslan Ahmad
React Best Practices for Software Design and Architecture | Imran Farooq
Python is notoriously slow. Now its creators want to make it twice as fast | Ari Joury, PhD
Meet a Programmer Who Rejected a $10,000,000,000 Acquisition Offer From Microsoft | Sanjay Priyadarshi
10 Must-Read Books for Software Engineers in 2023 | Simon Holdorf
Elon Musk Gets Hilarious Responses after Posting a Job Description on Twitter | The woman
Top 3 Reasons Why I Moved From Notion to Obsidian as a Software Developer | Amy Li
Use Git like a senior engineer | Jacob Bennett
Bad practices you should avoid using Angular | Rebai Ahmed
Why Some Developers Will Never Improve | Software Surplus
Why I Switched From Rust to Go on the Backend | Anthony Oleinik
How To Use .groupby() Effectively As A Data Scientist | Youssef Hosni
Is Bun.js the Node.js killer?! | Nazarii Romankiv
The World’s Largest Corporate Bitcoin Holder Is About To Get Liquidated (According to the Internet) | Jayden Levitt
5 Concepts you must know as a React Developer | Rajkumar Gaur
Python Automated WhatsApp Message Sender | Asaf Pras
How I Used ChatGPT To Automate These 6 Tasks In My Data Science Role | Ahmed Besbes
Building a Python Interpreter inside ChatGPT | Art Kulakov
Top 7 Deep Learning Methods, Explained in Less Than 10 Seconds Each | Anil Tilbe
How Many Hours a Day Does It Take To Become A Software Engineer In A Year | Matt Croak Code
20 GitHub Repositories to Become a React Master | Martin Adams
I Reduced My production Docker Container’s Size by 96% 😎 | Francisco Sainz
Deep Dive into CQRS — A Great Microservices Pattern | Kevin Vogel
9 Incredible Websites That Every Developer Should Bookmark | Vivek Naskar
5 Advanced JavaScript concepts that will make you a better developer | Henrik Larsen Toft
Your First Angular Microfrontend | Stefan Haas
Elon Musk Just Redefined Management in Sofware | Mohammed Ayar
Java, Go, and Python: a multi-thread performance comparison | Jose Pablo
Memory Management In .NET | Ahmed Tarek
A Software Developer’s Review Of The M2 MacBook Air | Attila Vágó
This Is Why Most Programmers Fail to Become Senior Developer | Lokajit Tikayatray
Better error handling in Golang: Theory and practical tips | Ville Kuosmanen
Changing Async/Await to Promises.allSettled() to Speed Up API Calls in Node.JS | Wendie Sun
Good API design, bad API design | Roman Kyslyi, PhD
How I scrape lots of sites with one python script | Mykhailo Kushnir
System Design: Designing a Distributed Job Scheduler | Ahmad Faiyaz
45 Front End Developer Tools | Niemvuilaptrinh
📊 Publication Data 2022 📊
2022 was Level Up Coding’s best year yet with peak views just before the holidays at over 4M articles read per month for a total of nearly 4.8M total minutes.
Thank you for another amazing year and for making Level Up Coding the best programming community on the web. You rock.
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