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turboline-ai3d ago • 3 min read
Hidden complexity of building WebSocket servers from scratch
WebSockets Sound Simple Until You Have to Maintain One There's a moment every engineer...
#streaming#datapipeline#backend
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Elaan.ioAug 24, 2026 • 10 min read
The notification system you didn't plan to build
Build vs. buy for in-app, email and push, argued through per-tenant branding and real-time delivery.
#architecture#saas#backend#webdev
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MartinAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Node.js interview deep dive: what they are really testing
Almost every senior Node question is the same question wearing a different hat: do you understand...
#node#backend#interview#webdev
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JohnAug 25, 2026 • 6 min read
The Upload Succeeded, the Record Did Not
A YouTube upload stage wrote its local "already uploaded" record only after verification succeeded, ...
#api#backend#debugging#softwareengineering
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Rasikh2d ago • 11 min read
The provider timed out after committing
A request that never came back has three possible histories and one symptom. Why "unknown" has to be...
#architecture#backend#api#programming
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Ankit Verma2d ago • 7 min read
Transaction propagation (REQUIRED / REQUIRES_NEW / NESTED ...) (Part 2 of 2)
Picking up between "join" and "start fresh" Part 1 left you with two propagation modes and...
#spring#java#backend#programming
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Parvej Shah5d ago • 3 min read
A Debouncer That Doesn't Scale Past One Worker (On Purpose, For Now)
SellerVai merges rapid-fire customer messages into one reply using an in-memory buffer that explicit...
#javascript#backend#webdev#node
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Adithya Chauhan5d ago • 8 min read
What Actually Breaks at 1 Million Requests per Second?
One million HTTP requests every second sounds like a server-sizing problem: add more CPU, launch mor...
#backend#systemdesign#performance#scalability
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Neeraj Singhi4d ago • 6 min read
MongoDB Partial Indexes: Surgical Query Planning for High-Cardinality Sparse Fields
How partial indexes change query plan selection, write amplification, and working-set pressure in Mo...
#backend#database#mongodb#performance
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Srijan Verma6d ago • 2 min read
Taming Context Bloat: How to Scale AI Agent Memory Without Breaking the Token Bank
Stop dumping raw message arrays into LLMs and start using structured state with sliding windows. ...
#ai#backend#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Suraj Upadhyay3d ago • 4 min read
PostgreSQL Multi-Tenancy: Isolation That Survives a Growing Team
Startups building B2B products reach for multi-tenancy in PostgreSQL the same way on day one: one...
#postgres#database#backend#software
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Nitin MalviyaAug 24, 2026 • 9 min read
How Kafka Saved a Failing System -The Story of Arjun & Meera
Modern systems run on data in the form of fast, real-time, continuous streams. But what happens whe...
#kafka#systemdesign#distributedsystems#backend
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Allen Jones6d ago • 7 min read
What Actually Makes a Software Engineer Great (It's Not the Framework You Know)
Learn React. Learn a backend language. Build projects. Apply to jobs. That's the advice every...
#softwareengineer#dev#backend#systemdesign
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Neeraj Singhi2d ago • 5 min read
Redis Pipeline Contention Under Write Amplification: Batching Strategy, HOL Blocking, and the Flush Timing Problem
How Redis pipelining degrades under write amplification, why HOL blocking compounds latency, and how...
#backend#database#go#performance
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knot crochet4d ago • 5 min read
I Rebuilt ClickFunnels' One-Click Upsell. The Hard Part Wasn't the UI.
One-click upsell is the page that appears right after someone buys: "add this for $29, no need to...
#api#backend#softwareengineering#typescript
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Sanu Khan6d ago • 8 min read
How to Choose Between SQL, NoSQL, and Everything in Between
System Design from Developer to Architect — Part 2 In Part 1, we took a backend from: User →...
#systemdesign#database#backend#architecture
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Allen Jones6d ago • 6 min read
The N+1 Query Problem: Why Your API Might Be Making 101 Database Queries Instead of 2
If your API feels fast in development but becomes painfully slow in production as your data grows,.....
#backend#systemdesign#database
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LibmeAug 24, 2026 • 7 min read
Why Your OAuth Integration Randomly Returns invalid_grant (and How to Stop Two Workers From Racing)
Concurrent workers refreshing a rotating OAuth refresh token cause invalid_grant and disconnected in...
#api#backend#security#postgres
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Kazem6d ago • 4 min read
Authorize Can't See Your Data
The first authorization bug I ever shipped wasn't a missing [Authorize] attribute. It was the...
#backend#programming#webdev#dotnet
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Bhargav Patel5d ago • 5 min read
From SOLID to Composition, Dependency Injection, and IoC: How Angular, Spring, and Node.js Differ
When learning Angular, Spring, and Node.js, I often came across terms like SOLID, Dependency...
#architecture#backend#node#softwareengineering
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Ashomondi6d ago • 3 min read
Why Most Expense-Tracker fail (And how I'm Building Spendly to Fix It)
We've all been there: you download a shinny new finance app, spend 20 minutes setting up your...
#webdev#programming#javascript#backend
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Luce Carter6d ago • 6 min read
A New Way to Build Aggregation Pipelines in Go
This article was written by Lin Borland Aggregation pipelines are one of the most powerful tools in...
#backend#database#go#mongodb
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Achraf Ben HamouAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read
RPC in Python: gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and REST vs GraphQL
When building backend systems, choosing the right communication protocol can have a significant...
#api#architecture#backend#python
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Juma Evans5d ago • 10 min read
Load Balancing: How Backend Systems Handle Millions of Requests
Imagine you have built a backend API that works perfectly. You deploy it to a server, connect your....
#go#backend#networking#webdev
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