Tech Skills
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
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Hono in 2026: The Web Framework That Runs Everywhere
14KB. Zero dependencies. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno, AWS Lambda, and Node.js Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Hono in 2026: The Web Framework That Runs Everywhere
14KB. Zero dependencies. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno, AWS Lambda, and Node.js Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
My Fix Was Right. Then It Was Commented Out.
How a MongoDB type quirk turned working security code into dead code — and how a real user paid the price before we caught it. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Go Goroutine Crashes: 97% of the Output Is Noise
Go's panic behavior is aggressive. When one goroutine panics, the runtime dumps the stack trace of every goroutine. A production Go service with 50 active gorou
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Setting Up a Production-Ready Django Project Structure
The project structure nobody teaches you but everyone expects you to know. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Setting Up a Production-Ready Django Project Structure
The project structure nobody teaches you but everyone expects you to know. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Edge Bundles Break What You Assumed Was Universal
Why bundling for edge runtimes reveals hidden Node.js habits, shaky dependencies, and architecture assumptions you stopped noticing. Continue reading on Medium
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Node.js vs TypeScript
Node.js and TypeScript are not competitors — they work together. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why Your Spring Boot App Works Locally but Crashes in Production
Most backend engineers don’t have a code problem. They have a production problem. Continue reading on Javarevisited »
Medium · DevOps
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why Most Backend Engineers Fail in Production (And Never Become Senior)
Writing code is easy. Handling production systems under pressure is what separates mid-level engineers from seniors. Continue reading on Engineering Playbook »
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Python Default Argument Bug That Silently Breaks Your Code
Special Offer for My Readers Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
I Built a CLI That Previews Any JS Project Automatically
Because “just clone it and run it” has never actually been that simple. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
I Built a CLI That Previews Any JS Project Automatically
Because “just clone it and run it” has never actually been that simple. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
I Replaced My Express.js App With Fastify — Here’s What Happened
Switching from Express.js to Fastify is a common move for developers, Really? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Servers Made Simple: How the Digital World Runs Behind the Scenes
1. What is a Server? (Start Very Basic) Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Beneath the Syntax: Why C and C++ Are Still the Ultimate Training Ground for Developers
The software development landscape today is overwhelmingly focused on speed and accessibility. High-level languages dominate the… Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Yu Qian Yang
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How I Used Bit Manipulation to Speed Up Float-to-Int Conversion in a Storage Engine
In a columnar time-series database, one of the most effective compression tricks is deceptively...
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
A Sane Way to Handle Server Component Errors In Next.js
Let’s be real: errors are annoying. But in Next.js, they can also be confusing. You reach for react-error-boundary like a good React… Continue reading on Medium
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Developing RESTful API Endpoints with FastAPI
FastAPI provides a modern, fast, and robust framework for building RESTful API endpoints in Python. Leveraging Python type hints, FastAPI… Continue reading on M
Dev.to · Santhanam Elumalai
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Warmed Permission Cache: Speed, Security, and the Real Trade-Offs
Authorization checks are one of those backend paths that seem harmless until traffic grows. In my...
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
OAuth2 BFF for SPAs — Stop Putting Tokens in localStorage
Imagine you build a React app and it stores the access token in localStorage. A simple XSS exploit—a malicious script injected through a… Continue reading on Le
Dev.to · bismark66
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The Hidden Cost of Login: How I Decoupled Session Cleanup from Authentication in NestJs
TL;DR Login looks like two operations — password check + token issue — but there's often a third...
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why Express.js is a great choice for your first backend
I have spent over 15 years building systems. Early in my career, I frequently had to context-switch between Java on the backend and… Continue reading on Medium
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Full Stack Developer Learning Guide (Beginner → Job Ready)
Learning full stack development can feel scary for beginners. There are many technologies and tools, and it’s easy to get confused. This… Continue reading on Me
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Build a Production-Ready REST API with Node.js in Under 30 Minutes
Building a production-ready REST API in 30 minutes! Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Stop Putting Everything in settings.py
One settings file for all environments is a production incident waiting to happen. Here is the professional split that prevents it. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Stoyan Minchev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
A single Kotlin lambda silently broke my app for 21 hours - and I only found the bug because someone crossed a border
I build a safety-critical Android app that monitors elderly people living alone. It watches their...
Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
10 Go Mistakes That Survive Code Review (2026 Edition)
The 10 subtle Go bugs that pass go vet, pass tests, and ship to production. Updated for Go 1.26: no loop-variable retreads, no nil-map filler, just the mistakes
Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Go Generics, 4 Years In: The 3 Cases Where They're the Right Answer
Generics shipped in Go 1.18. Four years later, the Go team has quietly written the best style guide that exists: the standard library itself. Here's what they g
Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
pprof in 15 Minutes: The Go Profiling Walkthrough That Doesn't Skip the Hard Parts (Go 1.26)
CPU, heap, mutex, and the new goroutine leak profile in Go 1.26. How to capture them, how to read them, and the three profile shapes you'll actually see in prod
Dev.to · Alish Akadil
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Building JudGO: The High-Performance Online Judge for the Next Gen of Coders
# I built my own Online Judge because the standard ones were too soft. 🥶 Most devs build a simple...
Dev.to AI
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
"Backend Engineering for an AI Platform: The Infrastructure Decisions Nobody Talks About"
Video Explanation: https://youtu.be/1xL_Dtp7Ksg ) By Raghav Bansal | Backend Engineer & Memory Infrastructure Lead, Team FireFury EduRag Project | Stack: Fa
Dev.to · Houssem Reggai
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Stop Putting Everything in settings.py
PROFESSIONAL DJANGO ENGINEERING SERIES #2 One settings file for all environments is a production...
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
VS Code Explained Simply: The Only Code Editor Beginners Need in 2026
Published: April 12, 2026 Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · JavaScript
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Spring Boot vs Node.js: Which One Should You Choose for Backend Development?
When building a web application, choosing the right backend technology is very important. If you are deciding between Spring Boot and… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · Python
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
After Using FastAPI, Most Python Backends Feel Outdated
A practical deep dive into how FastAPI changes the way you design backend systems. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Startup
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
10 Tools Every Backend Developer Should Be Using in 2026
If you’re still writing backend systems the same way you did in 2020, you’re already behind. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
10 Tools Every Backend Developer Should Be Using in 2026
If you’re still writing backend systems the same way you did in 2020, you’re already behind. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to · Denis Lavrentyev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Boost Backend Web Development Confidence: Structured Approach to Independent Coding Projects
Understanding the Confidence Gap in Coding The struggle to structure and implement backend...
Dev.to · airmcp-dev
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
A simpler way to build MCP servers — would love feedback
I've been building MCP servers for a few months now. Every time, same pattern — write a Zod schema,...
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