Backend Engineering

13.1.0 Before We Begin During its design, Rust drew inspiration from many languages, and...

The deploy script had been running in production for four months without a problem. It built releases...

The deploy script had been running in production for four months without a problem. It built releases into a temp directory, ran some… Continue reading on Mediu

Design effective caching with Redis, result caches, TTLs and invalidation to reduce compute and latency while keeping data fresh and consistent.

TypeScript checks your JavaScript before it runs. Wrong data types show as errors while you code, not...

Learn how to build type-safe and scalable GraphQL APIs in Node.js using Prisma and Nexus with real-world examples. Continue reading on Medium »

Every developer I know has the same problem: knowledge scattered across five places at once. Browser...

If you've shipped a Next.js app on NextAuth (now Auth.js), you know it works. The reason people move...

You likely interact with C++ programming several times every day. Continue reading on Medium »

Nothing exposes fuzzy understanding faster than trying to explain your own code. Over the last few...

Get push notifications for new email, calendar changes, and contacts instead of polling. A hands-on tour of Nylas webhooks and the CLI: create, verify HMAC sign

Read events, create meetings with auto-conferencing, RSVP, and compute cross-provider availability through one API. A hands-on tour of the Nylas Calendar API an

Do not model Python as “a subprocess per function.” Model it as a long-lived language worker with an RPC boundary. Continue reading on Medium »

Search engines like Google and Bing use sitemaps to efficiently crawl and index the pages of your website. In Laravel, generating a sitemap is easy with the hel

Verify mysqldump Installation Before creating database backups, make sure that mysqldump is installed and available in your system's PATH. mysqldump is a comman

JavaScript modules are often thought of as containers for functions, classes, and constants that we explicitly import and use. However… Continue reading on Medi

You ship a /posts index page. It renders 50 posts, and for each one it shows the author's name with...

Introduction In the world of Node.js, choosing the right Postgres client library can...

You're debugging a URL parsing issue in your load balancer logs. Someone pasted a link like...

One day, I walked into a supermarket to buy a few things. I paid with my card, but the POS machine...

Built a distributed authentication system for my portfolio. Here is an in-depth breakdown of the...

Build client-side search with an inverted index, stop word removal, and automatic indexing. No server, no API key, no network request.

Choosing a learning path is one of the most critical decisions you make as a beginner. When I set out...

Executive Summary: To eliminate race conditions in a high-concurrency ticketing system, I implemented...

Wiring DeepSeek Into Spring Boot: A Backend Engineer's Notes So here's the deal. Last quarter I was...

Pagination seems like a simple topic until you encounter it in a backend interview. Continue reading on Stackademic »

FFmpeg is powerful, but remembering its flags is a full-time job. ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice —...

In 2021 the Great Suspender — a beloved tab-suspending extension with millions of users — was quietly...

Why standard file operations are a liability in production In high-availability systems, file I/O is...

I recently set out to build a tool that solves the problem of manual financial tracking—without the...

A weekly digest from the Agentic Architect persistence kit: 7 senior C#/.NET rules for engineers keeping Cursor honest across sessions.

I'm a front-end-leaning dev (React/TS), so naturally I decided my next project should involve TUN...

OrderHub Day 1 stored orders in a HashMap — restart the server and they're gone. Day 2 fixes that:...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 60 — a massive 2-month milestone on my unbroken daily...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 59 of my non-stop run toward mastering full-stack MERN...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 56 of my daily coding run toward mastering full-stack...

Microsoft just shipped the Release Candidate for TypeScript 7, with the stable release expected next month. And the big deal, for once… Continue reading on Medi

"This page feels slow" is a vague bug report. Before changing any code, it helps to have a fixed way...

I got tired of running headless Chrome myself just to turn HTML invoices into PDF attachments. So I...

You don't manage memory in JavaScript, Python, or Go. So why does your app still leak? Reachability, tracing, and the leak you wrote yourself.

Your function signatures are making promises they can't keep. Here is the difference between code that runs and code that is honest.

Everything from 1.4.1 through 1.4.9 happened inside a single function, standard_planner(). Building...

A real, honest deployment journey — from localhost to production. Learn how to deploy a MERN stack app on a VPS with Nginx reverse proxy… Continue reading on Me

A few months ago I realized something every time I needed to know what week it was I had to Google...

If you've ever opened your browser's Network tab and seen a bunch of requests labeled GET, POST, PUT,...

Payload CMS vs Strapi compared on hosting, admin UX, API model, TypeScript config, migrations, and total cost for 2026 projects.

I’ve been building a small project called TextToDeck, but the useful part of this story isn’t that...

Here is a common developer anti-pattern that every engineering team has committed: A new developer...