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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
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Doppar vs Laravel: A Brutally Honest PHP Framework Comparison (2026)
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...
Best MERN Stack Course in Jaipur With Placements
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...
Fixing Circular Dependency Issues in My Node.js + Express API Project
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...
Why JavaScript AbortController Is Not Canceling fetch() Requests (And How to Fix It)
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...
Update: My Phone-Built Auth CLI Hit 270+ Runs in 48 Hours And Already Got Its First Contributor
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...
If Your Backend Is Python, Why Isn’t Your UI? — Probo-UI 1.4.0
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...
Java 8 Interview Questions Every Developer Gets Asked
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 »
Building a Secure PHP Authentication System — FashionMood Tutorial
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....
Switching to Go from Java? Here’s Your Simple, Practical Roadmap
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
Simple JavaScript Automation Unit Testing Using Jest
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....
Spraxium: the TypeScript framework that will change how you build Discord bots
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
Why queues don’t feel “instant” in real backend systems?
Dev.to · Swan 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
Day 78 of #100DaysOfCode — Introduction to Flask: Setup and First App
Dev.to · M Saad Ahmad 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 1mo 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 »
From Input to Interaction: My First Real Tkinter Breakthrough
Medium · Python 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Defending Your Domain: Schema Validation and Global Error Handling
Dev.to · Renato Silva 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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.
Backend for Frontend (BFF), I Ignored It… Until My System Forced Me
Dev.to · Ankit Singh 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
The Go Error That Looked Like a Timeout But Wasn’t — And Why We Retried All Three
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Testing your routes
Dev.to · Andres Court 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 1mo 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
What I wish I had before submitting my first MV3 Chrome extension
Dev.to · 레서드 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
The Reality of API Routing, HTTP Intents, and URL Architecture (2026)
Dev.to · Kaushikcoderpy 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
How to Add Authentication to Any App in Under an Hour (2026 Guide)
Dev.to · Aadesh Kumar 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
Laravel 13.50: The Release That Supercharges Your Code
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
The latest() Bug That Silently Duplicated Transaction IDs in Production
Dev.to · Ahmad Fauzan Alghifari 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
Secure Your .NET API in 15 Minutes: JWT Authentication Tutorial
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 »
⚡ Flask + ORM: Stop Writing Slow Code Without Realizing It
Medium · Python 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 »
Supabase: An Open-Source Firebase Alternative for Modern Applications
Medium · Data Science 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Supabase: An Open-Source Firebase Alternative for Modern Applications
Medium · Deep Learning 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Java Backend Roadmap
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Java Backend Roadmap
The Complete Roadmap to Becoming a Java Developer Continue reading on Javarevisited »
Java Backend Interviews: What TCS & Capgemini Really Ask
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Recently attended an interview for a Java developer position with over 7 years of experience at TCS…
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 »
Circuit Breakers in Go: What I Learned After 3 Outages
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Dev.to AI 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Magic Behind Ruby: An Unofficial Guide to Its Power and Simplicity
Hey fellow developers, If you've been in the software development world for even a short time, you've probably encountered Ruby. This elegant language has been
Why would Go do this in its documentation?
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why would Go do this in its documentation?
Before diving in, let me be clear: this is not a critique nor a complaint about Go. It’s simply an observation that led me to an… Continue reading on Medium »
Reading Secrets Straight From the Browser: The NEXT_PUBLIC_ Trap
Medium · JavaScript 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Reading Secrets Straight From the Browser: The NEXT_PUBLIC_ Trap
When your “secret” API key ships inside every user’s JavaScript bundle Continue reading on Medium »
Bash Scripting for Beginners
Medium · Cybersecurity 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Bash Scripting for Beginners
 Index Continue reading on Medium »
Five Things People Still Get Wrong About C++
Medium · Python 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Five Things People Still Get Wrong About C++
The language has a reputation. Some of it is earned. A lot of it is thirty years out of date. Continue reading on Medium »
How to Build Scalable Backend Systems with JavaScript
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Build Scalable Backend Systems with JavaScript
A Practical Guide to Designing High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant, and Scalable Backend Architectures Using Modern JavaScript Technologies Continue reading on Jav
How to Build Scalable Backend Systems with JavaScript
Medium · JavaScript 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Build Scalable Backend Systems with JavaScript
A Practical Guide to Designing High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant, and Scalable Backend Architectures Using Modern JavaScript Technologies Continue reading on Jav
Hono in 2026: The Web Framework That Runs Everywhere
Medium · Programming 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 »
Hono in 2026: The Web Framework That Runs Everywhere
Medium · JavaScript 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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 »
My Fix Was Right. Then It Was Commented Out.
Medium · JavaScript 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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
Setting Up a Production-Ready Django Project Structure
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 »
Setting Up a Production-Ready Django Project Structure
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 »