Backend Engineering

Alright, imagine this: you’re standing at a big old crossroads, right? You’re itching to jump into the wild, wonderful world of backend… Continue reading on Med

Alright, imagine this: you’re standing at a big old crossroads, right? You’re itching to jump into the wild, wonderful world of backend… Continue reading on Med

Hi, I'm Hugo. I built MinecraftServers-List.com — a Minecraft server directory that ranks servers by...

One harsh truth we discover while building backend systems for IoT devices like industrial sensors or...

While inserting records into the tablename table, the following error was encountered: Continue reading on Medium »

Hi everyone!! I'm currently working on my very first major project for my portfolio to land a Junior Backend Developer role. So far, I've built a API using Java

Pick a clipboard manager and you usually end up choosing two of three: cross-platform, lightweight,...

When people talk about database failover, they usually focus entirely on the infrastructure layer: Continue reading on Medium »

When you open popular apps like Instagram or Amazon, your phone doesn’t store all that data locally. Continue reading on Medium »

When you open popular apps like Instagram or Amazon, your phone doesn’t store all that data locally. Continue reading on Medium »

Your health check is a single line. res.send('ok'). It used to take a millisecond. Then traffic...

Two weeks ago, I was a React developer who thought backend was just "API that returns data." I...

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" /v WindowOcclusionEnabled /t REG_DWORD...

Assuming you have an understanding of javaScript. Continue reading on Medium »

Synchronous billing is easy, and that's the problem — it makes you think all billing is easy. When a...

How PESSIMISTIC_WRITE + SERIALIZABLE isolation + @Version optimistic locking stopped real concurrent webhook double-credits in a Spring Boot 3 fintech wallet.

Most teams discover the hard way that building a payment system is not really a coding challenge. Continue reading on Medium »

Your app works fine in testing. You deploy it, a few users come on, and then it just… hangs. No error, no crash. The request sits there… Continue reading on Med

If you’ve spent any time working on modern web applications, you’ve inevitably hit the “large file upload” problem. Continue reading on Medium »

Not as an if-else wrapper. As a control plane for safely changing production behavior. Continue reading on Medium »

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 73 of my 100-day full-stack engineering journey! After...

I Wish I'd Found DeepSeek V4 Flash Sooner — A Backend Breakdown I'll be honest with you: I rolled my...

Originally published at imrantech.hashnode.dev The Honest Starting Point When my tech...

For nearly two decades, the monolithic application was the default answer to almost every enterprise...

Open almost any JavaScript project created five years ago and you'll probably find hundreds or even...

Remember how I promised you (or rather myself) two weeks ago that from now on I'd only write light,...

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Converting SVG graphics to JPG is a common need when you want raster thumbnails, email‑ready images,...

2026-W25 This week I worked on auth/session across both backend and frontend. At first, it...

If you’ve used Spring Boot REST APIs but haven’t explored Spring Integration yet, this project is a...

You don’t need to remember exact names. You just need to remember enough. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Full Stack Developer Course with Placement in Hyderabad: Your Complete Guide to Building a Successful IT Career Continue reading on Medium »

Three microservices, two incompatible auth models, one public endpoint, and a Go gateway that turned...

JavaScript Array Iterations Array Iteration Methods Array iteration methods operate on every array...

Recently attended an interview with Genpact for a Software Developer role Some of the questions asked: Continue reading on Medium »

Recently attended an interview with Genpact for a Software Developer role Some of the questions asked: Continue reading on Medium »

From another programming language and recently picking in GO. I'm trying to understand how do you do...

If you want to make a great first impression as a developer, your GitHub profile README is the best place to start. But writing the… Continue reading on Medium

After studying backend systems, I realized most errors shouldn’t be exceptions at all. Continue reading on Medium »

MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases used by companies like Netflix, Uber, and Adobe to store massive amounts of data. As… Continue reading on Med

Users preferred the web version — the specific capabilities that closed every gap users used to complain about. Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English

I wanted tarot card meanings as clean, structured data for a side project, and quickly hit the usual...

Seven gems to run background jobs. That's what 37signals was running before they said "this can't be...

Adding a TCP Server, real time metrics, and graceful shutdown to FastKVS Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »

I’ve been working on backend development using 헙헮혀혁헔헣헜, where I came across how the framework makes it easy to implement… Continue reading on Medium »

How a multi-region video discovery site collapses youtu.be, Shorts, embed, and mobile YouTube URL va

Many articles online cover deep and complex topics about web development. But in order to gain understanding of them, sometimes we need to… Continue reading on

I had a realization about two years into freelancing that shifted how I thought about my career. I was looking at my income for the… Continue reading on Medium