Engineering blogs have a lot of practical knowledge as well as content bridging theory and application. What are some that are good reading? Google has an engineering blog,
First Round Capital: http://firstround.com/review/engineering/
Spotify: labs.spotify.com
<i>ahem</i> <a href="https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs</a><p>Edit: Too bad you can't use asterisks in HN comments...
Etsy's tech blog: <a href="https://codeascraft.com/" rel="nofollow">https://codeascraft.com/</a> is excellent.<p>They got me on to monitoring EVERYTHING with statsd. Great stuff.
Workiva Techblog <a href="https://techblog.workiva.com/" rel="nofollow">https://techblog.workiva.com/</a> has become a favourite of mine recently.
One of my favorite ones is Instagram's: <a href="http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/</a>
Auth0 blog is pretty nice if you are into JavaScript and Security <a href="https://auth0.com/blog" rel="nofollow">https://auth0.com/blog</a>
Netflix is a good one. But remember most of them won't get you anywhere if you want to learn about their architectures. They are mostly used as a recruiting tool.