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Kaapi A flexible, extensible backend framework for modern APIs with messaging, documentation, and type safety built right in. > This series is written for back...
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...
Why I expected it to be hard My mental image of auth code was: - Deeply abstracted layers - Magic helpers everywhere - Complicated middleware chains - Unclear...
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...
Introduction When I started working on a new Android mobile app, I knew one thing for sure: I didn’t want to rewrite authentication logic again. Auth is one of...
The job market reality check Look, I get it. When you started learning to code, everyone told you “learn JavaScript, it’s everywhere.” They weren’t wrong, but...
Introduction When I tell people I use Go for backend development, the most common reactions are: - “Why not Java?” - “Isn’t Go too simple?” - “Rust is cooler,...
Introduction Most systems don’t fail because of bad technology choices; they fail because they were never designed to grow. I’ve spent years building backend s...
This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AIhttps://dev.to/challenges/new-year-new-you-google-ai-2025-12-31 About M...
Moments like this remind me that I’m actually living the dream I once talked about: becoming a software engineer. Learning backend engineering with Node.js has...
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