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Adam - The DeveloperMay 26, 2026 • 3 min read
Minimal Code Doesn’t Mean Stable Code
The argument sounds reasonable: fewer lines of code mean fewer bugs. Simpler to review, easier to...
#programming#productivity#backend#distributedsystems
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amirMay 28, 2026 • 8 min read
Why We Accidentally Blocked Our Users: A Deep Dive into Idempotency in Distributed Systems
A production story about payment retries, duplicate requests, Redis, distributed locks, and how idem...
#backend#distributedsystems#redis#architecture
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Aviad RozenhekMay 28, 2026 • 13 min read
The Bitter Lesson for Backend Engineering
Every senior backend engineer has sat in a war room while smart people argue over instincts. "It i...
#ai#backend#software#agents
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srinivas reddy gouruMay 26, 2026 • 11 min read
How Spring Data JPA, JPA, and Hibernate work together
The Magic Line That Raises the Right Question Spring Data JPA is a library that lets you...
#backend#database#java#springboot
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Mohamed Hussain SMay 25, 2026 • 4 min read
Why Too Many Parts Hurt ClickHouse Performance
A lot of people initially think ClickHouse performance problems come from: large queries bad...
#clickhouse#database#dataengineering#backend
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Juan TorchiaMay 28, 2026 • 10 min read
El benchmark que me hizo cambiar de opinión sobre Jakarta EE en 2026
Mismo backend, misma base, mismo k6. En las primeras corridas parecía que Embedded GlassFish mandaba...
#spanish#espanol#performance#backend
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Juan TorchiaMay 25, 2026 • 8 min read
Prisma query logging y PostgreSQL: dónde termina el ORM y empieza la base
Los query logs de Prisma ayudan a detectar patrones, pero si el problema vive adentro de PostgreSQL,...
#spanish#espanol#typescript#backend
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Juan TorchiaMay 25, 2026 • 7 min read
Prisma Query Logging and PostgreSQL: Where the ORM Ends and the Database Begins
Prisma query logs help you catch patterns, but if the problem lives inside PostgreSQL, the ORM won't...
#english#typescript#backend#nextjs
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Juan TorchiaMay 28, 2026 • 9 min read
The benchmark that made me change my mind about Jakarta EE in 2026
Same backend, same database, same k6. In the first runs it looked like Embedded GlassFish was on top...
#english#performance#backend#railway
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Alan WestMay 27, 2026 • 5 min read
How to build reliable geo-restrictions that actually hold up in production
Geo-restrictions look simple until you ship them. Here's how to build jurisdiction-based access cont...
#webdev#security#backend#devops
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Srikar Phani Kumar MartiMay 29, 2026 • 4 min read
I built a backend platform that generates REST APIs from a schema — no code, no server setup
How Crudly uses dynamic runtime routing to give you a full CRUD API, playground, docs, logs, and web...
#webdev#api#backend#buildinpublic
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Victor AyoolaMay 28, 2026 • 7 min read
How My Team from Risevest Academy and I Built an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging App in 3 Weeks
An account of the decisions, the mistakes, and everything I learned from building Culver.
#javascript#node#backend#typescript
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Damola AdegbiteMay 27, 2026 • 6 min read
How Would I Build a Payment System That Doesn't Lose Money
This is the first post in a series I'm calling How Would I Build. I take a real engineering problem,...
#systemdesign#backend#programming#codenewbie
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amirMay 24, 2026 • 9 min read
The Silent Killers of Go Concurrency: Mutexes, Semaphores, and Goroutine Leaks
A senior backend engineer's field notes on lock contention, goroutine leaks, semaphores, pprof, and ...
#go#backend#concurrency#performance
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D_SECURITYMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read
How I Stressed My SQLite Job Queue to 5,000 Continuous Tasks on an Android Phone (And Why It Outperformed the Cloud)
Every developer building a side project or a home automation pipeline eventually hits the same...
#python#opensource#devops#backend
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Ananya SMay 29, 2026 • 4 min read
FastAPI for AI Engineers — Part 1: Why Every AI Backend Is Moving Toward FastAPI
You open ChatGPT. You type a prompt. Within seconds: your request reaches a backend server, the....
#ai#backend#api#fastapi
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 28, 2026 • 8 min read
Architecture of Chaos: Taming a Planet-Scale Financial Beast (Part 1 — Lying Clocks & Vector Clocks)
"Selim, you have six months. In six months, the system either goes planet-scale, or we go bankrupt.....
#systemdesign#distributedsystems#architecture#backend
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mihir mohapatraMay 31, 2026 • 5 min read
I Built a Production-Oriented Multi-Provider AI Chatbot in Rust — Here's How
A deep dive into building a Rust + Axum + Tokio backend that talks to Claude, OpenAI, and Ollama thr...
#rust#backend#ai#llm
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Nahwin RajanMay 31, 2026 • 9 min read
What Is Database Sharding — and When Does Your Startup Actually Need It
Sharding is real and necessary at scale. It's also one of the most prematurely adopted patterns in s...
#database#postgres#backend#architecture
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Abdullah al MubinMay 29, 2026 • 3 min read
CRDT vs Operational Transformation: How Google Docs and Notion Actually Avoid Edit Chaos
You’re typing in a document. Someone else deletes the sentence you’re writing. Another person edit...
#architecture#backend#systemdesign#webdev
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Ravi GuptaMay 25, 2026 • 6 min read
I Watched Money Move Twice From the Same Request. That's When I Understood Idempotency.
How a double-spend during testing taught me why financial systems treat duplicate requests as a...
#python#backend#redis#security
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Alberto Luiz SouzaMay 25, 2026 • 7 min read
Entidades finas e composição: o design que escolhi para a nova plataforma
Disclaimer Este texto foi inicialmente concebido pela IA Generativa em função da...
#architecture#backend#softwareengineering#systemdesign
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Mehmet TURAÇMay 30, 2026 • 8 min read
Great Stack to Doesn't Work #2 — Kafka: "Where Did My Messages Go?"
A survival guide for when everything goes wrong in production. There's a moment every engineer.....
#kafka#backend#devops#discuss
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Juan TorchiaMay 30, 2026 • 9 min read
Arquitectura backend de identidad digital: las decisiones que los tutoriales omiten
Los tutoriales de auth muestran el happy path. Los problemas reales de identidad digital aparecen en...
#spanish#espanol#backend#seguridad
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