Beginner guide to write a tech blog. Few easy steps to getting your writing career started, especially for engineers and Tech leads.

1. Writing a tech
blog
Easy guide to nail you next story on
medium
https://medium.com/@niteshghn
Nitesh Verma

2. Topics to discuss
1. Why should you write blog
2. Structure of the blog
3. The Audience
4. The Writing
5. The Content
6. Examples

3. Why should you write blog ?
● It help company to tell about it’s tech implementation and get feedback from people.
● It help you read and memorize lot of stuff, compare lot of technologies and trade-off.
● Soft skills
○ Grammer
○ Words/Vocab : Synonyms etc
○ Tools : Excel, Charts etc
● Become popular and create self-brand -> which help people find you on internet
● Sharing is caring and it propagates.
● You can make money by writing.

4. Structure of blog
● Problem statement : What are you
solving and why is that a problem ?
● What were the requirements and
expectations from the new system ?
● What are proposed solutions ? Explain
trade-offs and what fits your need ?
● How did you go about implementing
this ?? what are the challenges you
faced ?
● What are the results and outcome ?
● Conclusion : Share your perspective
and future scope of project.
Introduction/Background/Origin of problem
Requirements and expectation
Results and Outcome
Proposed solution and Trade offs
Implementation
Conclusion

5. Typography and styling
● Title and Subtitle :
○ Title : Should be small precise and catchy
■ Example : Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline — Managing Overhead,
○ Subtile : Explain the title and what going to be in blog
● Headings
○ Every section mentioned previously should have big title , h1
○ Subsection will have small size heading , h2
● Further Formatting :
○ Use bullet points , underlines etc
○ Use “section breaks” to highlight content start
○ Use Quote for taking a reference from someone’s work

6. The audience
How/why are people coming to your blog ??
● Googling some problem they faced
● Looking for some people based on some skill
● Organically
What are people who’s going to read your blog ??
● Fresher , college students , 10 year experience guy
● Recruiter , Manager, CXOs
Everyone like stories !! Make yours register in their brain.

7. The writing
● Organize your thoughts : Mindmap
● Just write it .
● Improve it iteratively.
Read it yourself and Send
it across to friends
Read and get feedback
Write new or correct
mistakes.
Write parts and connect
Organize feedback into
your headings
Organize thoughts

8. The Content
Have to be engaging
● Use memes (but not much)
● Pictures , diagrams => https://www.draw.io/
● Code snippet , Gist
Context
Don’t lose context. Make sure you talk about the topic only. Park additional info.
Think about Audience
Is it too verbose ? Is it too mathematical ? Is it smooth ? Can reader understand it without going
out of my blog ?

9. Examples
1. Airbnb
2. Booking.com
3. Cloudflare
4. Dropbox
5. Envato
6. Etsy

10. About my writing experience
Started reading tech blogs in 2014 mainly Techcrunch and other trendy websites.
Got interested in writing blogs on medium in 2015. Published first story on Feb 2017.
No of published blogs : 4
No of drafts (Ready to be published) : 4
Total story views : 718
No of reads : 461
Read Ratio : 64%
Total Number of claps : 303
Total number of users : 56

11. Happy writing !!