Backend Engineering

Queue draining starts with a small decision that changes how a service writes data. Instead of sending every item to the database as soon… Continue reading on M

Nodemailer is the most widely used email library in Node.js. If your Express, Next.js, or NestJS app...

I’ve been writing Python for a long time, and like many developers in that space, I got used to a...

Playwright won the modern e2e race by treating parallelism as a first-class feature instead of an...

We need to store rich text used for web, apps, UIs and editable in editor. Continue reading on Medium »

I worked with Python for 3-4 months to get familiar with programming and understand the syntax , and the truth is that I didn't feel comfortable with it. The dy

Hi, everyone! I'm just starting out in web development. So far, all I've done is look at job postings, and now I'm deciding on a learning path. About half of th

Security is the cornerstone of any modern web application, but historically, implementing robust...

How to design Node.js applications that reference optional modules, install or load them only when needed, and keep dependency governance… Continue reading on L

I encountered an issue where speech transcription in Node.js wasn't saving content due to a missing `conversation_id`. Sharing the resolution process.

The moment I first started learning backend development, I already knew that real applications...

I've been learning to code for a while now. I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I've built projects. I did...

I’ve recently started learning Go, and one thing I really like so far is how simple and readable the language feels. Continue reading on Medium »

A UUID either records exactly when it was made or records nothing at all, and one hex digit decides which. The common v4 has no timestamp, so reading one off it

As a solo developer I wanted a fast, mobile-friendly interactive map for Palworld that didn't bury me...

Android 17 is rolling out to supported Pixel devices first, while non-Pixel users and IT teams face separate OEM timelines, beta programs, and app-testing consi

Most JavaScript applications ship far more code than necessary. The average web page loads 1.7 MB of...

The Indie Hacker's Guide To API Uptime And SLAs In 2026 Okay so here's the thing. I never thought...

When engineers first introduced Golang to the world, they weren’t just adding another language — they were answering a growing need for… Continue reading on Evr

Your Node.js server may not need a bigger machine. It may simply need to stop pretending one CPU core is enough. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need to process video in your TypeScript project. Maybe...

The remote job market is the most competitive hiring environment most developers will ever face. Not...

Disclosure: I'm the author of SUPER-MCP, an open-source MCP server. The criteria in this article are...

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...

As the title says, I want to start contributing to open-source projects. I've found a few projects on GitHub, but most of them are actively maintained, and sinc

You run git diff dozens of times a day. You read the red and green lines, you stage the hunks, you...

I'm a backend Dev in the making and I have an idea about this website that I want to make and I really don't know where to start from. I have listed the feature

For almost two decades, one statement has echoed across the software industry: Continue reading on Medium »

If you’ve ever refreshed a payment page wondering why the status hasn’t updated yet — this article is for you. Continue reading on CodeX »

This week, my work as a backend engineer was focused on one thing: making real business flows behave...

Why millions of developers are sleeping on a 35-year-old virtual machine that still solves problems...

From smarter indexing and query planning to JSON optimization and connection pooling, these techniques delivered bigger wins than adding… Continue reading on Me

Most self-taught developers skip this step. Then they spend hours wondering why their code is not working. Continue reading on Medium »

How destructuring helps you extract values from arrays and objects while keeping your JavaScript code cleaner, shorter, and easier to read. Continue reading on

This is a completely different use of ? from optional chaining. Here ? and : work together as a shorthand if/else: Continue reading on Medium »

¡Hola! Soy Karla Magallanes Vicente estudiante del 5to semestre de Análisis de Sistemas te contare un...

You open a project, run `npm run dev`, and a browser tab lights up with your app. Behind that one command, something extraordinary happens… Continue reading on

Spring Security 7 dropped at Spring I/O 2026. Daniel Erno from the Spring Security team gave a talk...

A PORT=8O80 typo (that's a letter O), a DATABASE_URL you forgot to set, a NODE_ENV=prodd — none of...

Most link management tools on the internet are just dumb, static URL shorteners. But in modern web...

Linux runs 96% of the world’s top web servers, every Android phone, the International Space Station, and the computers that power modern… Continue reading on Me

Most tutorials only scratch the surface. Discover the advanced useCallback patterns professional teams use to build high-performance React… Continue reading on

Finally had to put my bigboy pants on and get rid of a bad pattern. Continue reading on Medium »

If you've ever had to encrypt a nationalId, a creditCardNumber, or a medicalRecord field in a Spring...

Async bugs rarely start with broken syntax. They start with a developer believing something is already true when the system has not made… Continue reading on Sk

Async bugs rarely start with broken syntax. They start with a developer believing something is already true when the system has not made… Continue reading on Sk

Expo SDK 56 ships with a custom Kotlin compiler plugin that eliminates reflection from Expo Modules...

A deep, scenario-driven React Native interview prep guide covering fundamentals, navigation, lists, threading & JSI, networking, persistence, state management,