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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 · Prajapati Paresh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Fix Database Deadlocks: Transaction Retries in Laravel 🛑
The Concurrency Collision As your B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs scales to handle thousands of...

Dev.to · Muiz Oyebowale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why I Built My Own Rate Limiting Library for FastAPI
This was originally posted on my blog. I was not planning to build a rate limiting library. I had a...

Dev.to · Jatin Gupta
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Companies Like Google Prefer gRPC for Microservices
REST vs gRPC REST changed how applications communicate over the internet. But when companies started...

Dev.to · hiyoyo
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
lopdf vs pdfium in Rust — What I Learned Building a PDF App
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer....
Dev.to · Mahdi BEN RHOUMA
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Supabase vs Firebase in 2026: The Honest Comparison No One Is Telling You
Supabase vs Firebase in 2026 — the definitive comparison. We break down pricing, database, auth, real-time, storage, and DX so you can pick the right backend fo

Medium · Cybersecurity
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Your Node.js API Will Crash at 1,000 Req/s (And How to Fix It)
System Weakness isn’t always about a 0-day vulnerability or an unpatched server. Often, the most devastating system weaknesses are… Continue reading on System W

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Your C++ Code is a Ticking Time Bomb (And Rust is the Only Defusal Wire)
That title sounds dramatic. Continue reading on The Tech Notes »
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Wrote a Tiny Video Codec in C++ — heres Every Line Explained
RGB → YUV420P → delta frames → DEFLATE → and all the way back. No libavcodec, no magic, just ~150 lines of C++ and zlib. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Larinezen
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Agnade: meus primeiros passos com ASP.NET Core e Injeção de Dependência
Depois de tantas aplicações do tipo console, treinando OOP, chegou a hora de praticar e fazer uma...

Dev.to · Alex
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Found a Tool That Shrinks Electron Apps to a Few MB
I stumbled on Pake today. It’s sitting at 2,400 stars on GitHub. That kind of jump in one day made me...
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
C++ Programming: Why Is It Still One of the Most Powerful Languages in Software Development?
C++ has been around since 1985, yet it refuses to go away. Many new languages appear every year, promising to make coding easier or faster… Continue reading on

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Ruby on Rails Gems Mastery: Build, Publish & Manage Your Own Gems Like a Pro
Ruby is famous for its elegant ecosystem of Gems. Every Rails developer uses gems daily — whether it’s Devise, Sidekiq, Pundit, or RSpec… Continue reading on Me

Dev.to · Siddharth Pandey
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Fix N+1 Trigger Patterns Where Lambda Functions Hammer the Same DynamoDB Partition Key
You add a sixth Lambda trigger to your OrderEvents table, deploy it, and within 20 minutes your SLA...

Dev.to · Sergey
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Handling Webhooks Safely and Reliably in SaaS Platforms
Webhooks are one of the most common ways SaaS platforms communicate with external services. They...

Dev.to · Karthick Karthick
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Interfaces in Java: The Invisible Contract That Powers Flexible Applications
Introduction: Imagine a World Without Rules… Think about a mobile phone. Every mobile can take...

Dev.to · Chinwuba
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building the Backend for a Project Management Tool — Express, Prisma, and the Mistakes I Made Along the Way
I'm currently completing a Full Stack Development internship with CodeAlpha, and the first project is...
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Webpack needs Babel for Older Browsers but not Vite + ESBuild
Babel is not always required. You can often skip it if you’re targeting modern browsers. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Sergey
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Idempotency Is Critical in Modern SaaS Architectures
Idempotency is one of the most important concepts in backend engineering, especially for SaaS...

Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
All Scripts Are Programs, But Not All Programs Are Scripts. Why?
Programming and scripting are closely related concepts in software development, with scripting being a subset of programming. Both involve… Continue reading on
Dev.to AI
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
My API Broke Every January 1st — The Timezone Bug That Slipped Past Code Review
My API broke at exactly 00:00 UTC on January 1st. Not the users' midnight — UTC midnight . Which meant our users in Tokyo had been living with broken data since
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Stop Competitors from Scraping Your Data! Building a Backend Defense for Your E-commerce Store
In the world of cross-border e-commerce, malicious bot scraping leading to Meta/Google Pixel pollution is a nightmare for every seller… Continue reading on Medi

Dev.to · Nick-111
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I Built a Machine-Verifiable Contract System for Python Code — Here's How It Works
I Built a Machine-Verifiable Contract System for Python Code — Here's How It Works Last week I wrote...

Dev.to · Jessica Temporal
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Recovering lost commits with git reflog
There is a particular kind of panic that hits when a commit looks like it just vanished. Maybe you...

Dev.to · Mirza Leka
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Ref, Out & In - C#
In C#, ref, out, and in are keywords used to pass arguments to methods by reference rather than by...

Dev.to · 根本卓哉 Takuya Nemoto
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Why I Started Developing the Trinity-Infinity Framework
Most frameworks begin with a question. The Trinity-Infinity Framework was no exception. It did not...

Dev.to · frontendfacile.it
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
SQLite riscritta in Rust? Perché qualcuno sta provando a toccare il codice “più affidabile” che abbiamo
Dalla libreria embedded che ha invaso ogni dispositivo a un’implementazione moderna con concorrenza,...

Dev.to · Luca Barbato
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
portage-cli
I'm experimenting with an alternative implementation of portage in Rust. It is quite different from...

Dev.to · ail akram
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Why Vibe Coding Fails (And How to Fix It): A Complete Guide for 2026
Quick-Fix Summary Box If you're in a hurry and just need the short version, here it...

Dev.to · Serguey Asael Shinder
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
You Learn More From the Bug Than the Feature
The feature that worked taught you nothing. You just confirmed what you already believed. The bug is...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Encrypting API Responses in a MERN App with AES-256
Without Touching Your React Components Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Mohamad Obeid
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
From Supabase-only to production Go: Month 1 of rebuilding Info Links
Two months ago I wrote about building Info Links — a free course resource platform for students at Le...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Version-and-Protocol-Filtering
Version and Protocol Filtering in Hyperlane Project...

Dev.to · Gopichand
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How I Built a Counter Program in Anchor and Learned to Trust My Tests
I spent Days 57–61 building the same counter program over and over. Not because I kept breaking it...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Server-Configuration
Server Configuration Project Code:https://github.com/hyperlane-dev/hyperlane ...

Dev.to · kingfujing
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The Complete Guide to Writing Better Regular Expressions
Master regex with practical patterns, real-world examples, and debugging techniques. Covers flags, named groups, lookaheads, catastrophic backtracking, and more

Dev.to · Anubhav Gupta
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The Hidden Trap in Backend Tutorials: Why Your Webhooks Are Creating Duplicate Data (And How to Fix It)
We've all been there. You're sitting at your desk late at night, watching a backend tutorial, fueled...
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Complete Guide to JavaScript Promises: From Beginner to Advanced
JavaScript is single-threaded, but modern applications constantly perform asynchronous operations such as API calls, database queries… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
What production Go Services Quietly have in common
Not clever abstractions — just disciplined engineering Continue reading on Dev Genius »

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Your HttpClient Is Quietly Killing Production. You’ll Find Out at 2 A.M.
One using statement. 65,535 sockets. Zero warnings until the pager went off. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Your HttpClient Is Quietly Killing Production. You’ll Find Out at 2 A.M.
One using statement. 65,535 sockets. Zero warnings until the pager went off. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Gerardo Barrera
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How to Generate a PDF from JSON in Node.js (without a headless browser)
If you've ever had to generate PDFs from a Node app — invoices, receipts, reports, certificates —...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Database-Integration
Database Integration with Hyperlane Project...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Database-Integration
Database Integration with Hyperlane Project...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Authentication-Middleware
Authentication Middleware in Hyperlane Project...

Dev.to · Jared Furtado
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I built a World Cup 2026 terminal app you can use over SSH
I've been learning Go and wanted a project that felt a little different from another web app. So I...

Dev.to · tengxgfyrz67s
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Event-Handling-Basics
Event Handling Basics in euv Project Code:https://github.com/euv-dev/euv euv is a Rust...

Dev.to · Lucas Guimarães
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Modernizing Classic ASP: A Practical Guide to Hosting AxonASP Behind IIS
Let’s be honest: when most developers hear "Classic ASP," they picture legacy Windows Servers, clunky...

Dev.to · AJ
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Migrating Ekehi from Vanilla JS to a TypeScript Stack
Ekehi platform has moved from hand-written HTML/CSS/JS pages to a typed, component-driven React 19...
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