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Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
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1mo ago
The 5 Code Reviews That Changed How I Think About Engineering
There are code reviews you forget five minutes after approving them. Then there are code reviews...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
📋 Product Management
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1mo ago
The "Minimum Viable System": How to Ship Early Without Shipping Junk
There is a dangerous piece of advice in software development: "Just build an MVP." It sounds...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building Your Own SQL Database
From Bytes on Disk to Tables You Can Query Every developer uses databases. Whether you're...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building Reliable UDP
How to Turn an Unreliable Protocol into One You Can Trust When most developers think about...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
MVCC Explained by Building One Yourself
Understanding Multi-Version Concurrency Control from First Principles Every database...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Things I Only Learned After Shipping 20+ Real Projects
When I wrote my first real application, I thought the hardest part of software engineering was...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Caching Strategies Every Backend Engineer Should Know
The first time I heard someone say, "The fastest database query is the one you never execute," I...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to Build APIs That Handle Millions of Requests
When most developers build their first API, they focus on one question: "Does it work?" And that's...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Silent Discipline of Data Modeling
When people ask me what backend developers actually do, they often expect an answer filled with APIs,...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Architecture Hidden Inside Every Query
When I first learned SQL, I thought queries were just...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building a Web Server in Pure Rust
The first web server I ever built wasn't written in Rust. It wasn't even close. Like many backend...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Hidden Patterns Behind Every Successful Application
One of the questions I've been asked repeatedly over the years is surprisingly simple. "What...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Software Evolves Like Ecosystems
One of the biggest mistakes I made early in my career was believing software was something you...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
What Every API Is Secretly Teaching You
The first API I ever built was nothing special. It had a few endpoints. A database behind it. Some...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Foundation of Every Great Backend System
When people think about backend development, they often imagine APIs, databases, cloud servers, and...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Invisible Work Behind Great Software
One of the biggest misconceptions about software engineering is that people judge software by what...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Hidden Patterns of Modern Software
When most people think about software, they think about features. A messaging app sends messages. A...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Weight of a Single Line of Code
When I first started programming, I thought every line of code was just another instruction for the...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Backend Patterns I Wish I Learned Earlier
When I started building backend systems, I thought becoming a better developer meant learning more...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Designing Software That Gets Faster as It Gets Bigger
One of the biggest myths in software engineering is that growth inevitably makes software...
Dev.to · Derek mwale
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Designing a Notification System That Doesn't Fall Apart
Every application eventually reaches the point where it needs notifications. At first, it feels...
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