Backend Engineering

Frontend is a pure client talking to my own API. The part I'm happier with is the backend: cache-aside summaries plus async pitch backfills coordinated through

I kept losing notes, snippets and diagrams to closed tabs, unsaved drafts and device changes. So I built Scratchpad — a single self-hosted Go binary where every

"Design an endpoint to create an order" sounds like a five-line answer. Route, controller, save,...

In the landscape of modern programming, delimiters serve as the essential scaffolding that organizes...

UUID generators are everywhere. Most of them work. But a surprising number use Math.random() under...

Did you know that adding link annotations to a PDF can significantly enhance user navigation but is...

I recently earned the opportunity to join as a Backend Engineer Intern at a Series D-funded fintech company building products at the… Continue reading on Medium

The self-invocation trap that silently skips your rollback in Spring Boot Continue reading on Medium »

Callbacks are one of those Rails features that feel great for about three months and then quietly...

A Go interview is rarely about syntax alone. Yes, you should know how slices work, how goroutines...

The Complete Roadmap to Become a Backend Developer in 2025 Imagine having the power to...

Hi everyone! I’m a non-developer who managed to build a small website (static HTML/CSS) and even got a simple AI chatbot working on it via a Python backend on R

Imagine this: You’ve been working on a coding project for hours. It’s midnight, exhaustion is setting in, but your code is finally running… Continue reading on

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 83 of my 100-day full-stack and database engineering...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 82 of my 100-day full-stack engineering run! Yesterday,...

When I received the offer letter from Synent Technologies in May 2026, I was excited but also a little nervous. I had learned HTML, CSS… Continue reading on Med

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 81 of my 100-day full-stack engineering run! Yesterday,...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 80 of my 100-day full-stack and database engineering...

Exploring Backend Development with Rust and Go: Insights from Web Developer Travis McCracken Hello,...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 79 of my 100-day full-stack and database engineering...

The main website of the language https://mojolang.org/ displays an announcement bar that says "Mojo will be open source soon! Join us at ModCon '26 for an updat

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 78 of my 100-day full-stack engineering run! Over the...

Research Context When doing low-level network programming in Assembly, you experience...

Skip the headless browser setup. Learn the three ways to capture a screenshot from a URL, and when a screenshot API beats Puppeteer or Playwright for production

Learn how to implement a production-ready Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system in CodeIgniter 4 with middleware, route protection, view-level gating, and a r

IndexedDB in JavaScript: Store Large Data in the Browser Like a Pro Continue reading on WebNex Labs »

Vite is the build tool behind most of the modern JavaScript ecosystem. React, Vue, Svelte, Astro,...

BullMQ vs pg-boss vs node-cron for Node.js background jobs. Trade-offs between Redis and Postgres queues, retries, deduplication, and production…

I’ve been working on enterprise Angular Micro Frontend projects for clients in the Gulf region for...

Hi, I built goldr , a server-first Go framework for building templ + HTMX web applications. I created it because I wanted the structure and ergonomics of a mode

I deployed my Flask backend on Render's free tier, shared the link with a friend to test, and got a...

Quick Answer: Git doesn't compare files line-by-line. Instead, it uses a Merkle tree data structure....

​ Tbh I have absolutely no experience in website design/hosting In short, my friends and I decided for some reason to create our own imageboard. We figured out

You add @Transactional to a method, expecting that if anything fails, the whole thing rolls back....

Learn how to configure Sanity Structure Builder for custom ordering, document grouping, and hiding noise in Sanity Studio. Practical code included.

The 'should we use TypeScript?' debate is over. The interesting question is what all those types are quietly enabling now.

In the previous article, we explored how functions allow us to package logic into reusable blocks....

JavaScript running in browsers and Node.js comes with an event loop implementation. Continue reading on Medium »

A real debugging story from building a Money Manager app in Spring Boot and the one line I was missing Continue reading on Medium »

A quick heads-up for anyone who hasn’t noticed yet. The old way of creating webhooks in Microsoft Teams is gone. If you’ve ever integrated… Continue reading on

Project Valhalla has been Java's most anticipated, slowest arriving feature for over a decade. On...

Most Angular developers use shareReplay() incorrectly. Learn when it leaks memory, why it happens, and the patterns you should use instead. Continue reading on

title: sqlex — A Modern Drop-in Replacement for jmoiron/sqlx published: false description: sqlex is a...

Tired of setting up the same boilerplate for every Spring Boot project, so I built a starter kit that has everything ready out of the box. What's included: - JW

Java 26 was officially released in March 2026, and after spending the past three months exploring its...

At 2:17 AM, my phone buzzed so violently it rattled the whole desk. Users were cursing in the support...

lg logger I wrote a logger that is as simple as possible, suitable as a replacement for the standard...

Practical insights into protocol design, tooling integration, and production deployment Continue reading on CodeX »