Backend Engineering

I don't really understand the point of pointers right now. If my function can just return a value directly, why would I complicate things with 'int *ptr = &

When you join an existing Laravel project, how long does it take before you feel truly confident touching the checkout flow, the billing… Continue reading on Me

FREE READ LINK! You have 3 backend services. A user types your domain. Where does the request go? This is what a reverse proxy does Continue reading on InfoSec

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When working on backend systems, there’s one task almost every developer eventually encounters: Continue reading on Medium »

I know basic c++, oop, functions,loops... I want to get into gamedev using c++ to learn how to use my code in projects, any books recommendations or YouTube pla

After attending multiple Java interviews and analyzing recent hiring trends, one thing has become very clear: Continue reading on Medium »

After battling virtualenv, pip, pyenv, and dependency conflicts for years, I switched to UV. The speed, simplicity, and reliability… Continue reading on Medium

The modern backend industry optimized for output, speed, and scale. Somewhere along the way, it accidentally optimized away understanding. Continue reading on M

Backend development taught me that real systems are not built with screens — they are built with structure, logic, and reliability. Continue reading on Medium »

What a language’s reputation tells you about the people who dismiss it. Continue reading on Medium »

After enough interviews, layoffs, recruiter calls, and production conversations, a pattern started becoming impossible to ignore. Continue reading on Stackademi

I thought I sounded experienced. In reality, I was accidentally signaling low ownership in almost every senior interview. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Not every shiny new addition to the language is a win. Some of them quietly trade away things you didn’t realize you valued. Continue reading on Medium »

PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT in Oracle PL/SQL is a compiler directive used to associate a user-defined exception with a specific Oracle error… Continue reading on Medi

Why C++ Still Owns the Systems That Actually Matter — and Why New Grads Need to Pay Attention Continue reading on Medium »

If you’ve ever built a website, you have undoubtedly used the classic script tag to pull in JavaScript: Continue reading on Medium »

We had MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and even Neo4j for “special use cases.” It looked sophisticated on architecture diagrams. The… Continue reading on C

I kept preparing for the round I was already good at while failing the rounds that actually decided the offer. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Most backend systems don’t collapse overnight. Continue reading on Medium »

As a developer, I build apps that require phone number verification. Testing SMS flows means creating dozens of accounts — which burns… Continue reading on Medi

Requests started timing out. Continue reading on Medium »

Blog 1 gave you the mental model. Go uses structs, not classes. Embedding, not inheritance. Implicit interfaces, not implements. Continue reading on Medium »

Every Go API starts with one promise: “The code is the documentation.” Continue reading on Go Systems »

A WebSocket chat app works great when everything runs on one server. Users connect, send messages, and the server broadcasts messages to… Continue reading on Al

One of the coolest features in JS is a Proxy object. Pity I can’t find more uses for them in a day-to-day development. Or maybe that’s a… Continue reading on Me

Ever dream of a backend that just… works? I mean, really, truly works. No weird, out-of-the-blue crashes. No sneaky memory leaks that… Continue reading on Mediu

Your EF Core queries are silently killing your app — and you don’t even know it. Continue reading on Medium »

From manual bookkeeping to automatic, tamper-proof audit trails — the three strategies that handle compliance, debugging, and data recovery Continue reading on

Who this is for: Engineers who already know core Java and are preparing for mid-to-senior backend roles. These 50 questions go deep on… Continue reading on Medi

A guide to bridging the gap between ease of use and raw performance. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Most developers memorize the definitions. Very few actually understand how Java really runs. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Authentication is one of the first real-world features most developers build when creating full-stack applications. In this article, we’ll… Continue reading on

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Requests, queries, jobs, mail, cache hits, exceptions, dumps — Telescope captures everything your app does in real time. Here’s how to go… Continue reading on M

Writing Java code that works locally is easy. Writing code that survives production traffic, scales with business growth, remains… Continue reading on Medium »

How we solved zombie socket connections in a realtime trading system. Continue reading on Medium »

Several programming languages have sparked interest among techies as well as non-techies for a good reason, and Ruby and Python have… Continue reading on CodeTo

Who this is for: Software engineers preparing for backend/Java roles at product companies — from FAANG to startups. These 50 questions… Continue reading on Medi

This book offers insights into C++, including algorithms and practices in game development, explores strengths and weaknesses of the… Continue reading on Medium

Learn the core concepts of the C++ programming language including OOP, data types, loops, functions, pointers, and memory management… Continue reading on Medium

Learn how Linux installs software, manages services, and handles repositories in simple terms Continue reading on Medium »

Avoid these common mistakes that slow down your growth as a software developer Continue reading on Medium »

80% of most web apps consists of basic CRUD operations. That means that for each resource, one must write ~3, 4 endpoints. Wouldn’t it be… Continue reading on M

# How to Validate Spanish NIF, NIE, CIF and IBAN in Any Programming Language (2026) Continue reading on Medium »

A Python streaming post-filter for compact, human-readable JSON with configurable formatting behavior. Continue reading on Medium »

Performance, validation, OpenAPI, testing, maintainability, team scale, and enterprise architecture. Continue reading on Medium »

How to find the real bottleneck in your Node.js and JavaScript applications. Continue reading on Medium »