Backend Engineering

The most dangerous code in production is rarely broken. It is code that appears to work perfectly. Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »

Spring-WS Gets First-Class Observability Support Out of the Box  Continue reading on BuildNextGen »

Let’s say I have the following Python code: f = file_name.open() f.read() (I know you should use “with” for the example above but for demonstration purposes we’

Demystifying RegEx: The Developer Superpower You Are Supposedly Afraid Of Continue reading on Medium »

During the peak exhibition season our event listing endpoint was getting hammered. Every visitor who opened the booking portal hit that… Continue reading on Med

No Apple fanboy stuff. Just real experience from someone who’s actually used all of them. Continue reading on Apple Insides »

Today’s issue: Stepping Down From Active Development, OpenAI as a Platinum Member, and Bevy v0.19 Is Here Continue reading on Rustaceans »

I'm curious about how experienced developers approach learning new technologies. ​ For example, if someone wants to become a Backend Engineer using F

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

You likely interact with C++ programming several times every day. 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

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

That title sounds dramatic. Continue reading on The Tech Notes »

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 »

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

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

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

Not clever abstractions — just disciplined engineering Continue reading on Dev Genius »

One using statement. 65,535 sockets. Zero warnings until the pager went off. Continue reading on Medium »

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

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

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 »

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

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 »

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

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

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

From zero to secure auth in 45 minutes — no magic, no shortcuts, just working code. Continue reading on Medium »

A backend learner’s honest take on why deployment can’t be ignored in the current job market. Continue reading on Medium »

Currently, I’m writing lightweight cross-platform console library in c++23, built entirely with modules, as my first project It already supports: • get/set the

Turn your mini shell into something that starts feeling like a real Bash shell Continue reading on Medium »

Understand the control center of your shell — how Bash keeps running forever, why cd is weird, and how commands continuously execute Continue reading on Medium

The painful mistakes, lost code, and late-night disasters that taught me how to use Git properly Continue reading on Medium »

A JAR (Java ARchive) file is a package file format typically used to aggregate multiple Java class files and associated resources (such as… Continue reading on

When most developers think about React Flow, they immediately imagine workflow builders, automation tools, AI agent editors, or… Continue reading on Medium »

I deleted 400 lines of Redis boilerplate last Tuesday. My latency stayed the same. My team lead thought I had broken production. Continue reading on Medium »

The backend hiring market has changed. Continue reading on Medium »

Java 26 Has Arrived. But What Should Developers Actually Care About? Continue reading on Medium »

Hi , there I was invited for programming challenge for this job application on Codility the position is for junior role what should I expect I never did one in

C++ is a powerful tool for developers. It controls computer hardware and memory with high precision. That power is a double-edged sword… Continue reading on Med

I am using PyQt framework, and I have a list that sorts the time according to the 24 hour time I do not know why it stops removing at a certain point. I believe

Missing data can get expensive in a busy service because the same bad request can keep pulling the application through the same lookup… Continue reading on Medi

If there’s one thing I hate more than anything when coding, it’s a random syntax error that makes absolutely no sense. You know the… Continue reading on Medium