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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 · Kaushikcoderpy
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Machine to Machine - API Keys, OAuth 2.0, and the Death of 1.0 (2026)
BACKEND ARCHITECTURE MASTERY Day 6: Machines, Valet Keys, and the Death of OAuth 1.0 15...

Dev.to · Abhishek Sharma
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
I Built My Backend on SQLite. Then I Deleted It.
In Part 7, I taught my server how to die gracefully. It felt production-ready. Auth, rate limiting,...

Dev.to · hiyoyo
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
lopdf vs pdfium in Rust — Why I Chose the Smaller One
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. When I started building a PDF tool in Rust, the first...

Dev.to · AvanexaTechnologies
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Understanding Node.js in Modern Web Development
Web development has evolved rapidly over the last decade. As websites and applications became more...

Dev.to · Atlas Whoff
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
My Node.js API Was Getting 10x Traffic and Falling Over. Here's the Rate Limiting That Held.
My API started the week serving 200 req/s. By Thursday it was getting hammered with 2,000. No...

Dev.to · Sreekari M
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
What Happens When You Type a URL in Your Browser?
You type a URL, hit Enter, and a webpage loads instantly. But behind that simple action lies a...

Dev.to · Pallavi Kumari
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Designing JWT Auth the Right Way
You log in to an app. Close the tab. Come back tomorrow. You're still logged in. Convenient?...

Dev.to · Ank Dev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Biggest mistake I made learning to code
You decided to learn how to code and get a job as soon as possible. You do a quick search online and...

Dev.to · ShatilKhan
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Giving Your Accounting App a Brain: NestJS "MCP"
Recap Let's be real: in the last blog we were running a local MCP server on my pc, wiring...

Dev.to · LuizLobo
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Go - Channels and everything you need to know about it!
In this article, we are going to explore and take a deep dive into one of the most important topics...

Dev.to · Naveen Karasu
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Day 1/90: Go setup and first program - Go Backend Engineering
A focused walkthrough of go setup and first program built around building a Go workspace that is small, predictable, and easy to run from day one.

Dev.to · Anoop Rajoriya
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
String Polyfills and Common Interview Methods in JavaScript
Strings are more than just a sequance of characters. It's a backbone concept of the data...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Top Java Interview Questions Every Developer Should Know (Day 1)
Preparing for Java interviews can feel overwhelming, especially with so many concepts to revise. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Francisco Navarro
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Doppar vs Laravel: A Brutally Honest PHP Framework Comparison (2026)
Every syntax. Every feature. One winner. PHP frameworks have matured enormously over the past...

Dev.to · Neha Sharma
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Best MERN Stack Course in Jaipur With Placements
With businesses increasingly relying on dynamic web applications, the demand for full stack...

Dev.to · vedant kale
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Fixing Circular Dependency Issues in My Node.js + Express API Project
While working on a Node.js + Express backend project, I ran into a frustrating issue caused by...

Dev.to · Emily Scott
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Why JavaScript AbortController Is Not Canceling fetch() Requests (And How to Fix It)
Why JavaScript AbortController Is Not Canceling fetch() Requests (And How to Fix It) A less...

Dev.to · karabo seeisa
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Update: My Phone-Built Auth CLI Hit 270+ Runs in 48 Hours And Already Got Its First Contributor
Two days ago I published “I Built a CLI That Generates Production-Ready Auth Backends in 30 Seconds...

Dev.to · YOUNESS MOJAHID
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
If Your Backend Is Python, Why Isn’t Your UI? — Probo-UI 1.4.0
I got tired of this: Write logic in views.py Jump to HTML Add a condition Go back to Python Repeat...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Java 8 Interview Questions Every Developer Gets Asked
Java 8 was released in 2014. More than a decade later, it is still the most heavily tested version in every Java interview — from fresher… Continue reading on M
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Errores en Go vs Exceptions en JS
Por qué cambia tu forma de pensar Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Aya ait el hachmi
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building a Secure PHP Authentication System — FashionMood Tutorial
Your outfit, according to your mood Stack: PHP 8 + PDO | MySQL | Bootstrap 5 | JavaScript 1....
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Switching to Go from Java? Here’s Your Simple, Practical Roadmap
Hey there, fellow developer! If you’ve spent, like, a ton of years elbow-deep in the Java world, churning out awesome applications with… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to deploy a Hono API to Railway with Postgres in 10 minutes (2026)
Originally published on NextFuture The problem Hono is the fastest Node/Bun-compatible HTTP framework available in 2026 — its benchmark suite regularly outperfo

Dev.to · Eyob Samuel
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Simple JavaScript Automation Unit Testing Using Jest
Objective Learn to implement automated unit testing using Jest in a Node.js application....

Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Spraxium: the TypeScript framework that will change how you build Discord bots
I’m not sure if you know this, but recently a framework called Spraxium was released and is starting to draw a lot of attention from… Continue reading on Medium

Dev.to · Swan
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why queues don’t feel “instant” in real backend systems?
When I first learned about queues and background workers, I imagined something like this: request...

Dev.to · M Saad Ahmad
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Day 78 of #100DaysOfCode — Introduction to Flask: Setup and First App
Django learning is done, DevBoard is still being finished in parallel, and today, for Day 78, Flask...
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How to Compare package.json Files: A Node.js Developer’s Guide
Four practical methods for spotting dependency changes, version conflicts, and security issues before they reach production. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
From Input to Interaction: My First Real Tkinter Breakthrough
In my last post, I focused on refactoring and recursion, and more importantly, learning how to slow down and actually understand what my… Continue reading on Me

Dev.to · Renato Silva
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Defending Your Domain: Schema Validation and Global Error Handling
Learn how to protect your API using Zod for schema validation and Fastify for global error handling in a Clean Architecture context.

Dev.to · Ankit Singh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Backend for Frontend (BFF), I Ignored It… Until My System Forced Me
I'll be honest. For a long time, I thought BFF is just another "system design buzzword". Something...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Go Error That Looked Like a Timeout But Wasn’t — And Why We Retried All Three
context.DeadlineExceeded, context.Canceled, and net.Error walk into a production incident. Only one was a timeout. We retried all three… Continue reading on Lev

Dev.to · Andres Court
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Testing your routes
If you've been following this tutorial, you'd have the following file structure: Unit...
Reddit r/learnprogramming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Learning C# and .NET by building a real project
I started learning C# and .NET recently and noticed something pretty quickly. Learning syntax is actually the easy part. Variables, loops, conditions — you can

Dev.to · 레서드
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
What I wish I had before submitting my first MV3 Chrome extension
What I wish I had before submitting my first MV3 Chrome extension While working on Chrome...

Dev.to · Kaushikcoderpy
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Reality of API Routing, HTTP Intents, and URL Architecture (2026)
BACKEND ARCHITECTURE MASTERY Day 3: Routing, Intents, and the Illusion of REST Purity 15...

Dev.to · Aadesh Kumar
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How to Add Authentication to Any App in Under an Hour (2026 Guide)
Auth is the part every tutorial skips. Here's a complete, honest breakdown of your three real...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Laravel 13.50: The Release That Supercharges Your Code
From async queues to smarter Blade directives — discover the developer-focused features that make building faster, cleaner, and more… Continue reading on Medium

Dev.to · Ahmad Fauzan Alghifari
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The latest() Bug That Silently Duplicated Transaction IDs in Production
TL;DR: Using Model::latest()->first() to get the "latest" record by ID is wrong. latest() orders...

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Secure Your .NET API in 15 Minutes: JWT Authentication Tutorial
Your API is currently naked on the internet. Let’s fix that — fast. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
⚡ Flask + ORM: Stop Writing Slow Code Without Realizing It
You spin up a Flask server. Add SQLAlchemy. Build a few endpoints. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Data Science
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Supabase: An Open-Source Firebase Alternative for Modern Applications
Building modern web and mobile applications requires a backend that is fast, scalable, and easy to integrate. Supabase is an open-source… Continue reading on Me

Medium · Deep Learning
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Supabase: An Open-Source Firebase Alternative for Modern Applications
Building modern web and mobile applications requires a backend that is fast, scalable, and easy to integrate. Supabase is an open-source… Continue reading on Me

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Java Backend Roadmap
The Complete Roadmap to Becoming a Java Developer Continue reading on Javarevisited »

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Java Backend Interviews: What TCS & Capgemini Really Ask
Java backend interviews at companies like TCS and Capgemini are rarely about syntax or memorization. They are carefully designed to probe… Continue reading on M
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Recently attended an interview for a Java developer position with over 7 years of experience at TCS…
Photo by Headway on Unsplash Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Circuit Breakers in Go: What I Learned After 3 Outages
You don’t care about circuit breakers until the first time your service goes down because a downstream dependency decided to take a nap… Continue reading on Med
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