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Backend Engineering
APIs, authentication, databases, queues, serverless and production backend systems
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API Design
beginner
Design a RESTful API following best practices
Auth & Authorisation
intermediate
Implement JWT auth with refresh tokens
Database Integration
intermediate
Use an ORM (Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Drizzle)
Backend Performance
advanced
Implement Redis caching for hot data
Microservices Patterns
advanced
Decompose a monolith into microservices

Dev.to · Mike Cornwell
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
tgo Dev log #5: Weaponizing JSDocs, The Stupidity of Hoisting, and Injecting Native Go Power
I have spent the better part of two weeks grinding on getting Lodash supported in the tgo compiler....

Dev.to · Syed Muhammad Ali
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Next.js 16 Routing Explained: A Complete Beginner's Guide (2026)
Learn Next.js 16 App Router routing from scratch — dynamic routes, nested layouts, route groups, parallel routes, intercepting routes, and catch-all segments wi

Dev.to · Maverick Y
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Decades In, and a Date Field Still Got Me
I've been writing software for a long time. Long enough to have shipped in languages people don't run...
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
C29 is Redefining C — Forever
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

Dev.to · zhihu wu
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
3 Times You Need Base64 (and One Time You Definitely Don't)
When Base64 Makes Sense Base64 converts binary data into text using 64 printable ASCII...

Dev.to · swift king
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
I Built a File Converter That Handles 16 Formats in the Browser — No Upload Required
A client once sent me a PDF invoice and asked for it as a CSV. Then sent a HEIC photo that needed to...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Making Your Webpage Come Alive: The Complete Guide to JavaScript Events
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

Dev.to · authagonal
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Build vs buy auth: the bill you don't see coming
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

Dev.to · Md Shaifur Rahman
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Three Small Shell Scripts That Make HackerRank/DevSkiller C++ Take-Homes Way Less Painful
If you've ever done a timed C++ coding assessment on a platform like HackerRank or DevSkiller, you...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Go 1.26 Quietly Fixed the Things That Were Actually Annoying
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
Reddit r/webdev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Simplest path to port my web app to Android?
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

Dev.to · gary killen
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Common Next.js Errors (and How I Solved Them)
Common Next.js Errors (and How I Solved Them) If you've spent any amount of time building...

Dev.to · Cenk KURTOĞLU
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Next.js 15 App Router SEO done right: generateMetadata, dynamic sitemaps, and the one-file strategy
SEO in Next.js App Router is genuinely good once you understand the three pieces that work together....
Reddit r/webdev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Croatian developer trying to publish Chrome Web Extension - looking for help
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
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Connection Pool Starvation: How Thread Exhaustion and Unbuffered Database Queries Silently…
When early-stage entrepreneurs, non-technical founders, and junior full-stack developers map out their first production backend, they… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Startup
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Connection Pool Starvation: How Thread Exhaustion and Unbuffered Database Queries Silently…
When early-stage entrepreneurs, non-technical founders, and junior full-stack developers map out their first production backend, they… Continue reading on Mediu

Dev.to · Rahma Abdishakur
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
My journey to becoming full-stack dev
Hello, DEV community! I'm excited to start sharing my journey to becoming a full-stack developer....

Hackernoon
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How JSON.stringify Corrupted 150,000 Rows in My Postgres Database
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
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a Chapter-Based Question Retrieval System with Python & MySQL (Project 6)
When I first read the requirements for Project 6, my immediate thought was: Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Essential Design Patterns for Node.js Development
Node.js is a powerful JavaScript runtime used to build fast, scalable network applications. Its event-driven, non-blocking architecture… Continue reading on Med

Dev.to · Shivam Yadav
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Mastering TypeScript: Interfaces, Generics, Unions Explained
If JavaScript works, why was TypeScript created? Imagine you're building a small calculator app...

Dev.to · IamKhan
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How to implement RBAC in Go
My intention with this article is to show how I'd implement role-based access control (RBAC) if I had...

Dev.to · Dennis Morello
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Rebuilding the Windows 98 Defrag Simulator
There's a specific kind of satisfaction that comes from watching the Windows 98 defrag screen do its...

Dev.to · Janmejai Singh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What is Middleware in Express and How It Works
What Is Middleware in Express, and How Does It Actually Work? If you've spent any time...

Dev.to · Janmejai Singh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Sessions vs JWT vs Cookies: Understanding Authentication Approaches
A clear, real-world comparison of session-based and JWT-based authentication, what cookies actually do, stateful vs stateless auth, and a practical guide on whe

Dev.to · Samuel Umoh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Implement Authorization with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Golang
This is part 2 of our authentication and authorization series. In the previous part, we implemented...

Dev.to · Marcus Morris
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Open source is like an amazing community swimming pool. 🏊♂️
It’s collaborative, it’s highly efficient, and everyone is having a great time building incredible...

Dev.to · Samuel Umoh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Build a Secure Authentication System in Golang with Gin, JWT, and Postgres
Securing user data is a very important part of building any application. At the core of this security...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Your Call Stack Is Silently Freezing Your UI
A stack overflow once took down a critical user flow in production. No bad network call, no broken API, no obvious red flag in the logs —… Continue reading on M

Dev.to · Samuel Umoh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a media compression tool with Golang & Gin
You know that moment when a project starts simple but ends up forcing you to learn more about FFmpeg?...

Dev.to · 0xpremf
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Debugging a Redis Connection That Wasn't Actually Broken
So I was building a little Visit Counter app with Spring Boot and Redis nothing fancy, just bump a...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Cookie and Session Management in Hyperlane
Project Code:https://github.com/hyperlane-dev/hyperlane Introduction Cookie and session...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Stop Solving Random Coding Problems: Here’s a Better Way to Become a Software Engineer
Start your coding journey with structured practice: https://flycodx.com Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
TypeScript Interoperability in euv
Project Code:https://github.com/euv-dev/euv euv is a Rust + WebAssembly frontend UI framework that...

Dev.to · Prasad Ekke
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Profiling a Go Service in Production: pprof in 10 Minutes
Go ships with a profiler built in. No third-party tools, no agents to install, no instrumentation to...

Dev.to · MadKarma ✭
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I ported Rust's Result and Option types to TypeScript
results-ts brings Rust's Result and Option types to TypeScript with full type safety, async support, and chainable methods.

Dev.to · Thakurpal Rajput
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Built FinTrack - My Personal Finance App from Scratch
Hey everyone! ?? I'm Thakurpal Rajput and I just built my own personal finance tracking app called...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Java Full Stack Training in BTM: Build a Successful Career in Full Stack Development
Full Stack Developer: Companies are looking for developers who can create full web applications from scratch. This means being able to… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · LLM
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Applying Scalability in Backend (CodeBuddy)
In my previous posts, I talked about Scalability, and later about Queue Systems. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Stop Handling Errors Inconsistently in Spring Boot: 4 Patterns That Make Bugs Debuggable
Your service returns errors. But when something breaks in production at 2 AM, can you find the root cause in under five minutes? Most… Continue reading on Stack

Dev.to · hokmeta
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building HOKMeta: static Honor of Kings data, guides, and player tools
I have been building a small site for Honor of Kings Global called HOKMeta: https://hokmeta.com/ It...

Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a Real-Time Video Streaming System with a Python Backend: Say Goodbye to Lag!
When building projects that involve two-way communication like monitoring dashboards, robotic control systems, or IoT, one of the biggest… Continue reading on K
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
JavaScript vs TypeScript — The Honest Comparison Nobody Gives You
Not “TypeScript is always better” — a real breakdown of what changes, what it costs, and exactly when to choose each one Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Naor Sabag
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Art of Code Archaeology
Imagine getting dropped into a massive, unfamiliar city at midnight, handed a wrench, and told to fix...

Dev.to · Lucas Guimarães
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
JavaScript no lado do servidor sem node.js? APIs no Linux com AxonASP
Quando falamos de Classic ASP, a primeira coisa que costuma vir à mente é o VBScript. É uma linguagem...
Medium · DevOps
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Every Backend Developer Should Learn Nginx Before Going to Production
From Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing to SSL, Caching, and Performance Optimization — everything you need to understand before deploying a… Continue reading on

Dev.to · DataDriven
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
DE Interviews Dropped DSA. The Replacement Is a Mess.
Companies quietly killed LeetCode rounds for DE roles , but what replaced them is inconsistent, unpredictable, and harder to prep for than algorithms ever were.

Dev.to · Ali Hamza
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Day 84 of Learning MERN Stack
Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 84 of my 100-day full-stack and database engineering...
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