Backend Engineering

Warp's founder thinks every major software project will soon run on an automated factory. He discusses why and how engineers should prepare for this shift.

What Go 1.24 swapped under map[K]V — Swiss Tables, SIMD probing, and the throughput change you’ll see without rewriting a line. Continue reading on Medium »

Angular 22 quietly shipped one of the most developer-friendly DI improvements in years — and most people are still sleeping on it. Continue reading on JavaScrip

Redux effects are middleware — thunks dispatching thunks, sagas yielding sagas, observables piping...

Every time I had to test an API endpoint while writing an OpenAPI spec, I had to leave VS Code, open Postman, configure the request, and… Continue reading on Me

Every Express developer has been here. Continue reading on Medium »

Been building and evaluating softphones on NetSapiens for a while, and I wanted to write something a...

If you run npm-check-updates (ncu) to keep your package.json up to date, you’ve probably noticed the few seconds of lag every time it… Continue reading on Mediu

Old Light is a browser strategy game: a whole galaxy you play in a tab, with star systems to claim,...

GUIs lock you into someone else’s UX. These 10 CLI tools earned a permanent spot in my shell. Continue reading on Medium »

If you’ve spent any time scrolling developer Twitter, Reddit threads, or job listings lately, you’ve probably noticed the same debate… Continue reading on Mediu

Fix Python proxy timeout errors with better timeout settings, retries, health checks, rotation logic, and concurrency controls. Continue reading on Medium »

HTTP Status Code Reference A complete, searchable reference for every HTTP status code —...

Learn how to create dynamic web pages in Flask using Jinja templates Continue reading on Python For Everything »

SuperTest POST Request Tutorial: Send JSON, Form Data, XML, Files & Faker Payloads Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Django is a Python development classic that has been helping build and maintain web projects of all...

Date bugs are rarely just JavaScript API problems. They are meaning, timezone, storage, formatting, and boundary problems hiding behind… Continue reading on Ski

12+ years in PHP. I still ship production code in both Laravel and CodeIgniter 4 today — Laravel runs...

How C++26’s fixed-capacity vector works under the hood — and why its design matters? Continue reading on Medium »

Node.js interviews have shifted. A few years ago, knowing require vs import and reciting "non-blocking I/O" was enough to get through a… Continue reading on Med

Hey DEV Community! Like many of you, I spend a lot of time jumping between terminal environments....

If you’ve been in web development for more than a week, you’ve likely encountered a broken API request, a mangled query string, or a… Continue reading on Medium

If Someone Had Shared These Lessons With Me Earlier, I Would Have Made Fewer Mistakes, Built Better Software, and Enjoyed Programming a… Continue reading on Sta

Introduction to npkill Continue reading on Medium »

You're Using 10% of Git Most developers know add, commit, push, pull, and maybe merge....

Performance isn’t something most developers think about on day one. Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »

Redundant compilation lags, bloated CI pipelines and version drift for internal modules quietly drain...

One if statement is how it starts Continue reading on Medium »

Your migration ran fine. Your tests passed. Production still went down for 90 seconds. Here’s why and how to actually fix it. Continue reading on Medium »

I have spent the better part of two weeks grinding on getting Lodash supported in the tgo compiler....

Learn Next.js 16 App Router routing from scratch — dynamic routes, nested layouts, route groups, parallel routes, intercepting routes, and catch-all segments wi

I've been writing software for a long time. Long enough to have shipped in languages people don't run...

New releases of C are historically: not that significant. But C29 changes that. For the first time, it becomes important to not stick to… Continue reading on Me

When Base64 Makes Sense Base64 converts binary data into text using 64 printable ASCII...

A client once sent me a PDF invoice and asked for it as a CSV. Then sent a HEIC photo that needed to...

In our previous guide, we learned how the Document Object Model (DOM) translates HTML into a tree of JavaScript objects. We learned how to… Continue reading on

Login is a weekend. The bill arrives after: signature verification, SCIM deprovisioning, MFA, audit logs, key rotation, breach liability, and on-call for a tier

If you've ever done a timed C++ coding assessment on a platform like HackerRank or DevSkiller, you...

Most release notes read like change logs. This one reads like a list of apologies. Here’s what changed, why it matters, and what you can… Continue reading on To

I have a web app that was designed and developed to run on a Unix environment, specifically on a kiosk type of setting. It's a run-of-the-mill Maven - Java - Sp

Common Next.js Errors (and How I Solved Them) If you've spent any amount of time building...

SEO in Next.js App Router is genuinely good once you understand the three pieces that work together....

Hi, I have a Chrome extension fully developed and ready to publish, but I have hit an unexpected blocker. I am based in Croatia. My Google Payments profile, car

When early-stage entrepreneurs, non-technical founders, and junior full-stack developers map out their first production backend, they… Continue reading on Mediu

When early-stage entrepreneurs, non-technical founders, and junior full-stack developers map out their first production backend, they… Continue reading on Mediu

Hello, DEV community! I'm excited to start sharing my journey to becoming a full-stack developer....

I stored arrays in Postgres jsonb columns using postgres.js + JSON.stringify. The driver serialized them a second time, so ~150,000 values across ten columns we

When I first read the requirements for Project 6, my immediate thought was: Continue reading on Medium »