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The 3 Biggest Trends in Backend Development (2024-2026)
The 3 Biggest Trends in Backend Development 2024‑2026 !https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/ht...
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Session-Based Authentication VS Token-Based Authentication
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Production-Grade Spring Boot APIs — Part 3: Consistent Responses & Global Exception Handling
Why API response consistency matters in microservices - APIs must look identical across services. - Errors must be predictable. - Clients should never have to...
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Production-Grade Spring Boot APIs — Part 2: Clean Code Structure, Controllers & DTOs
In production systems, bad structure hurts more than bad logic. I’ve seen Spring Boot applications where: - Controllers contain business logic - Entities are re...
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Best Practices in API Design with Node.js & Express.js
Introduction: Why Most APIs Fail Before They Scale 🚨 You can build an API that works today… and still be building a broken system tomorrow. Many APIs fail not...
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I Stopped “Scaling Fast” and Started Designing Failure — Here’s What Changed
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We Didn’t “Align” — We Argued (and Shipped a Better System)
Background Software projects rarely fail because someone can’t write code. In this project we were building a product with a fairly standard stack: - Frontend:...
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Building Modern Backends with Kaapi: Request validation Part 2
Kaapi A flexible, extensible backend framework for modern APIs with messaging, documentation, and type safety built right in. > This series is written for back...
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Designing APIs That Are Hard to Misuse
Most backend bugs don’t happen because developers are careless; they happen because APIs are easy to misuse. If an API allows the wrong thing, someone will even...
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Building a Location-Based Loan Comparison Tool: Lessons from the Fintech Trenches
The Problem Most loan comparison sites treat the US as one big market, but lending is hyper‑local. Interest rates, lender availability, and regulations vary wi...
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REST vs GraphQL: Two Philosophies, Two Eras, One Endless Debate
This post is for you if you can answer 'yes' to all/most of the questions below: You've built APIs before or at least consumed them. You've heard the 'REST vs G...
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My Node.js API Best Practices in 2025
Node.js has been powering production APIs for well over a decade now, and in 2025 it’s no longer “new” or experimental, it’s infrastructure. That maturity has c...