19 articles tagged with Backend.
A practical look at why Go usually outruns Python at runtime, where Python holds its own, and how to pick per workload.
A practitioner's tour of goroutines, channels, select, the sync package, context, and the pitfalls that leak or deadlock real Go services.
A practitioner's look at how Rust delivers memory safety and C-class speed, what it costs to learn, and when to skip it.
A practical guide to the signals that justify a message queue, the costs it adds, and a checklist for deciding.
Exactly-once network delivery is impossible, but exactly-once processing is achievable through at-least-once delivery plus idempotent consumers.
A practical guide to dead-letter queues, the pattern that isolates poison messages so one bad payload can't stall your whole pipeline.
A practical guide to publish-subscribe messaging, covering topics, fan-out, delivery guarantees, durable subscriptions, and the real systems that power it.
A practical tour of the message queue patterns that keep distributed backends decoupled, resilient, and able to survive traffic spikes.
Kafka and RabbitMQ both move messages, but they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one shows up in your on-call rotation later.
Synchronous calls couple your services together and fail together. Events let systems react instead of ask. This is the map: the patterns, the messaging tools, and the delivery guarantees that make it work.
A good API is a promise you can keep for years. This is the map: the conventions, the protocols, and the details that make an API pleasant to use and safe to change.
A practitioner's guide to rate limiting algorithms, where to enforce them, and how to make them work across many instances with Redis.
