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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 · Arnob
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
PgPool2 & PostgreSQL — Bypass SCRAM entirely, use MD5
SCRAM + AES decryption is tricky to get right. The fastest working solution is to switch to MD5 in...

Dev.to · Truffle
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Backslashes vanished between source and eval.
A clap-generated fish completion stripped backslashes from binary paths. The fix turned on reading...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
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4w ago
Express Rate Limit — Prevent API Abuse in Node.js
When building APIs with Node.js and Express, one mistake beginners often make is exposing endpoints without any protection. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Hadil Ben Abdallah
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
You’re a Real TypeScript Developer Only If...
A few months ago, I published You're a Real JavaScript Developer Only If... It was just a post for...

Dev.to · Arun Raghunath
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
We built test mode. Then discovered it was broken.
Part of building jhansi.io in public. Test mode sounded simple. Upload code, pass a command, jhansi...

Dev.to · z z
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
10 Git Mistakes That Waste Hours — And How to Fix Them in Seconds
Real Git disasters I've fixed in production: lost commits, wrong branch, merge hell. Each one has a one-command fix.

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
The Node.js Patterns That Made My Backend APIs Fast, Reliable and Easy to Maintain
Not just making it work — making it genuinely work well under real conditions and real constraints. Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »

Dev.to · Usama Habib
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Git & GitHub for Beginners: Learn the 5 Commands You'll Use Every Day
Every developer uses Git. Most beginners avoid it for weeks because it looks complicated. It is not...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Google Authenticator integration with Spring Boot
We had a user account get taken over last year. Nothing sophisticated about it — someone had reused a password from a site that got… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · ChatGPT
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Should You Migrate From Selenium to Playwright in 2026? An Honest, In-Depth Answer.
Selenium is not dead. That is the first thing most migration articles get wrong. Selenium runs more production test suites than any other… Continue reading on M

Dev.to · Mark0
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
little secret of msconfig.exe
This article documents several lesser-known command-line arguments for the native Windows utility...

Dev.to · web4browser
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
My Playwright Proxy Worked, but Login Still Failed
I used to treat a passing IP check as a green light. If Playwright showed the expected proxy IP, I...

Dev.to · Douglas Moura
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Aube: A New Dawn for Node Installs
Aube (pronounced "ohb", from the French word for dawn) is a new Node.js package manager written in...

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
21 MERN Stack Mistakes That Are Quietly Slowing Down Your Growth
The hard lessons I learned after getting stuck for months in the same place Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Lincoln Zocateli
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
C#, Go, Python, Java, Ruby e PHP: qual linguagem escolher?
Comparo C#, Go, Python, Java, Ruby e PHP com foco em funcionalidades, aplicabilidade e versatilidade para ajudar você a escolher a linguagem certa em cada cenár
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
I'm a self taught full stack developer and I feel stuck
I'm a self taught full stack dev who started in this field in 2022, knowing that i was studying digital marketing at the university so it has nothing to do with

Dev.to · Lucas Guimarães
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Run ASP Classic on Linux, macOS and Windows
If you have ever found yourself searching for how to run ASP on Linux or trying to figure out how to...

Dev.to · Alex Chen
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Error Handling in Node.js: Beyond Try/Catch (2026)
Error Handling in Node.js: Beyond Try/Catch (2026) Try/catch is just the beginning....

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Designing Idempotent Webhook Endpoints in FastAPI and PostgreSQL
Preventing duplicate charges and system race conditions by building a robust event lifecycle ledger. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Designing Idempotent Webhook Endpoints in FastAPI and PostgreSQL
Preventing duplicate charges and system race conditions by building a robust event lifecycle ledger. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Mahdi BEN RHOUMA
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Background Jobs and Async Task Patterns with Next.js and Supabase
Build background job processing and async task patterns with Next.js and Supabase. Use database queues, pg_cron, and Edge Functions without external services.

Dev.to · Noriuki
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Git Survival Guide: Commands You Should Actually Understand
Git is one of the most used tools in development. But many developers use only a small part of it...
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
One Service, Two Languages: My Go vs. Rust 2026 Deep Dive (And What I’d Pick)
Okay, okay, let’s just get real for a sec. If you’ve spent any time building stuff on the backend, you’ve totally heard the endless… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · UX Design
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
A beautiful, fast, and easy-to-configure terminal setup for macOS
If you are a developer using macOS, chances are you have used iTerm2 at some point. Maybe you kept it for years, or maybe you replaced it… Continue reading on M

Dev.to · Joshua Varghese
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How I stopped 100 goroutines from hammering my gRPC server — Loom Part 2
This is Part 2 of my series building Loom. 👉 Missed Part 1? Read it here Today: Reflection cache,...
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
A little stuck
I'm new to GitHub and have been looking to make a basic website. For reference, something just similar to this https://nyx-cmd-hi.github.io/HyCity/ Could someon

Dev.to · RAHUL GARG
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
I got tired of writing the same API test 200 times, so I built a library
A couple of years ago I was working on a project with a decent-sized REST API. We had integration...

Dev.to · Thomas Plat
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Deploying a Complex Cursor-Built App: Prisma, Postgres, Inngest & Supabase on Vercel, Railway and Jetpacked
I built a complex full-stack application with Cursor to see how different deployment platforms handle...
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
CODERBYTE Angular version ?
hi, im passing an assignment tomorrow and i want know the version of angular that coerbyte uses. or what do you think its most likely (17+ or less) pls if you h
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
What is a buffer???
I keep seeing the word "buffer" everywhere in programming but i don’t know what it is or what’s the point or how and where do you know you have to use one? subm

Dev.to · Kouadio mathias Kouame
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
ObjectID et UUID côte à côte : lier MongoDB et PostgreSQL dans une app Node.js
Le pattern d'identifiant partagé qui facilite les architectures hybrides Beaucoup de projets...

Dev.to · Truffle
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
The hour after the primitive.
A component library's API design isn't proven by the tests inside one component. It's proven by the second component built on top of the first.

Forbes Innovation
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Lexar’s New Super-Fast Play-X SSD Is Built For Intensive Gaming
This new Play-X SSD is a high-performance module offering speeds up to 7,400MB/s and is being aimed at gamers and content creators working with 4K video and 3D
InfoQ AI/ML
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
ExtendDB: Open Source Amazon DynamoDB Compatible Adapter with Pluggable Storage Backends
AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreS

Dev.to · Sahil Mansuri
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Stop Wasting Hours on MERN Setup (Free Auth Boilerplate)
Hey devs, Every time I start a new side-project, I end up wasting the first few hours on the exact...

Dev.to · Rohit Giri
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Nodejs : from Hate to love
"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" by "leonardo da vinci".To understand it I spend a lot of...
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Help needed
Context: stock control. Hi, I recently made a website using vs code, it contains html, css and javascript. I have a form on the website and want to implement "s

Dev.to · Mercy Moraa
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Getting Started with Go: A Beginner's Journey
If you told me a few months ago that I would be obsessed with pointers, memory allocation, and...
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
I need help
I have just learned basics of python. I'm looking for learning web dev. I need guidance, help me with the road map. Suggest me the creators I need and also plea

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Modern C# in 2026: Features, Trends, and Practices Worth Learning Now
A roadmap for developers who want to stay relevant in the evolving .NET ecosystem. Continue reading on .Net Programming »

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Access Modifiers in C#: Who Gets to See What?
Writing code isn’t just about making things work. It’s about deciding who’s allowed in — and who isn’t. Continue reading on .Net Programming »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
NestJS Exception Filters: Handling Errors with Grace
If you’ve ever built a web API, you know that things don’t always go according to plan. Users might send invalid data, request resources… Continue reading on Me
Medium · LLM
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Type-Safe Background Processing: Go Generics and Postgres with River
Hello, I’m Lince. I’m working on git-lrc: a Git hook for reviewing AI-generated code. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Dominik Roszkowski
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building TUIs with Dart has never been easier
Ever since Norbert announced Nocterm, I wanted to use it for myself. I played a bit at first, but...

Dev.to · Andrew
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building a Zero-Server Network Forensics Suite with Rust and WebAssembly
Imagine you have a 50MB+ network capture (.pcap) from a critical infrastructure crash. You need to...
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Day 5 — Mastering Error Handling in Flask
Learn how to handle HTTP errors in Flask applications and create professional custom error pages Continue reading on Python For Everything »

Dev.to · Ebenezer
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Java for Beginners: Why Learn Java Instead of C, C++, C#, Python, or JavaScript?
Hey Folks! 👋 Good Day... I started learning Java one week ago. Every day I hear the word Java. If...

Dev.to · Chinwuba
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Continuation — Tables, CRUD, and Foreign Keys
I've been building with React and Supabase for a while now. I'm currently in Phase 3 of my 16-week...
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