Backend Engineering

Every article so far has talked about "the container" — the factory that builds and wires your beans....

When we build applications with Express.js, we often access incoming data using req.body. It feels simple: Continue reading on Medium »

There was a time when choosing a test automation stack mostly meant choosing between Selenium and...

Testing JavaScript: Practical Guide to Confident Code (2026) Testing isn't about catching...

MDL 0.1.9 adds optional external TypeScript behavior scripts. The important word is optional. MDL...

Okay, so picture this: you’re back at square one, right? Like, a clean slate, staring at this wild, wide-open world of coding. It’s June… Continue reading on Me

Configuring environment variables seems simple, but it frequently leads to two common issues in...

A Claude Code generated performance and parallelism quick benchmark Continue reading on Medium »

I wrote a tutorial on adding user authentication to an existing Next.js app using Whop OAuth. The...

If you've ever built a feature involving QR codes, you've hit this question: should you generate a...

Stop burning through rate limits on large Shopify data jobs. Learn how the Bulk Operations API works, its lifecycle, scaling patterns, and production-ready erro

Converting XML to JSON looks deceptively simple - until your pipeline silently drops attribute data,...

Take a look at this C++ snippet. Spend half a minute reading it, then take a guess — how long do you...

The boilerplate adapter every Go developer keeps rewriting may finally disappear Continue reading on Programmer’s Career »

I spent several weeks reading Claude Code output for hours at a stretch and the default themes were...

Modern APIs need to be more than just endpoints — they must be modular, scalable, and production‑ready. Today I explored two powerful… Continue reading on Mediu

Knight Capital lost $460M in 45 minutes. Six hard lessons on building a payments ledger, integer math, idempotency, Postgres triggers, append-only design.

Claude Code has become my default for backend work that involves more than a single file. Here is the...

It was a Tuesday afternoon when I realized my FastAPI app was choking. Continue reading on Medium »

VALORANT isn't on macOS. Not because Riot doesn't want it there, not because Apple Silicon can't run...

Does anyone have any Certiport practice tests with exercises and answers? I know there are some available on Google, but most of them are paid. Could anyone hel

UploadThing is fast to set up but at scale you're paying per GB stored and transferred. At 10k MAU...

Most GDPR articles stop at cookie banners and privacy policies. That is the visible layer. The part...

A deep technical dive into the language that changed how I think about backend development Continue reading on Medium »

Many beginners assume that Java and JavaScript are the same because of their similar names. However,...

The Problem You're debugging an API response, and it looks like...

A lot of developers rely on scaling servers to handle performance issues, but often, the real bottleneck is just fetching the exact same data from the database

Modern applications do not process small files anymore. They process: Gigabytes of CSV...

Backend Engineering Is Mostly Decision Making When I started working on backend systems, I...

How news paywalls work: hard vs metered, client- vs server-side rendering, the Googlebot JSON-LD contract, and why some are easy to read and others aren't.

The problem with Next.js App Router caching isn't memorizing flags. It's understanding what freshness each piece of data actually needs and treating that as an

Most persistence debates in Java are framed incorrectly. The question is not: Should we use JPA,...

You’ve seen it: a 200-line generic repository interface that replaces a 5-line struct. Your team’s code review queue is full of [T any]… Continue reading on Go

Every web server you’ve ever used is just a program reading bytes off a TCP socket and interpreting them as HTTP. In Node, the http module… Continue reading on

NB, These are the mental rambling of an aged software engineer and AI-sceptic. Writing computer code...

I run a free image converter, its built on rust + axum + libvips. it had been happily running for...

# Building ArchiveFlix: A Free Movie Streaming Platform with Next.js 15 Recently, I built...

Open any repo you've worked in for a month and run git branch. Half those branches are merged and...

1. load Load a single record matching the condition and map it to the specified entity...

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Working heavily with Node.js, Vue, and TypeScript, my editor is usually doing enough heavy lifting as...

One day, I was working on a Python project. I had my 'reliable and speedy' Windows and my 'fast and...

Every time I needed rate limiting in a Python service, the answer was the same: add Redis. Just to...

For over a decade, setting up a new Python project meant wrestling with an fragmented ecosystem. You needed pyenv to manage your Python… Continue reading on Med

Known primarily for containers and servers, Alpine Linux isn't always considered for traditional desktop use. I think this lightweight distro could be your dail

hello i'm really not sure what this is actually about i guess just venting but i had my first interview for an internship in full stack web dev and on other occ

Learn how to integrate GraphQL with Next.js and Supabase. Complete tutorial covering schema generation, resolvers, authentication, and advanced patterns for pro

Complete guide to file uploads, image optimization, CDN integration, and media management with Supabase Storage and Next.js. Learn signed URLs, progressive uplo