Backend Development articles
Browse 28 posts in Backend Development, written by engineers at SoftwareCrafting.
These guides cover the backend work that decides whether a product holds up under real traffic: authentication with HttpOnly cookies and OAuth, role-based access control, PostgreSQL connection pooling with PgBouncer, background jobs, full-text search, webhook ingestion, API design, and database migrations.
The examples use Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL because that is the stack we run most often in production. Each post explains the trade-offs as well as the code, so you can decide when a pattern fits your system and when it does not.
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Backend Development articles
- Upgrading to PostgreSQL 18: Async I/O, UUIDv7, and a Zero Surprise Rollout
- What Is an API Gateway? Architecture, Security, Routing, and Production Patterns
- GraphQL vs REST in 2026: How to Choose the Right API Architecture
- WebSockets vs SSE vs Polling: Which Real-Time Technology Should You Use?
- API Versioning Strategy: How to Evolve a Public API Without Breaking Clients
- Secure Multi-Tenant APIs: Isolation, Authorization, and Auditability
- How to Learn Data Engineering: SQL, Pipelines, Warehouses, and Analytics
- How to Learn Python and FastAPI by Building a Real API
- How to Secure REST APIs: A Practical Learning Path
- What Is a Webhook Endpoint? How It Works, Examples, and Security Checklist
- What is PostgreSQL? A Beginner's Guide to Relational Databases in 2026
- Surviving Traffic Spikes: Architecting Database Connection Pooling with PgBouncer, PostgreSQL, and Node.js
- What is Node.js? A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Server-Side JavaScript in 2026
- What is GraphQL? A Beginner’s Guide to Modern API Design in 2026
- What is an ORM? A Beginner’s Guide to Interacting with Databases in Node.js
- SQL vs NoSQL Explained: How to Choose the Right Database for Your Project
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) from Scratch in Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL
- Implementing Secure JWT Authentication with HttpOnly Cookies in Node.js and React
- Securing Node.js APIs in Production: Implementing Advanced Rate Limiting, Helmet, and Redis
- What is a REST API? A Beginner’s Guide to How Web Applications Communicate
- Eliminating Microservice Blind Spots: Architecting Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry, Node.js, and AWS X-Ray
- Scaling PostgreSQL for High-Volume Telemetry: Implementing Native Table Partitioning and Archival Strategies in Node.js
- Scaling Secure Document Vaults: Architecting Direct-to-S3 Multipart Uploads and E2E Encryption in Node.js
- SOC2 Audit Trails in PostgreSQL: Building Tamper-Evident Audit Logs and Revision Histories with Triggers and Node.js
- Architecting Scalable Real-Time APIs: Migrating from Socket.io to AWS API Gateway WebSockets with a Stateless Node.js Backend
- Bulletproof Webhook Ingestion: Architecting High-Throughput, Idempotent Processing Pipelines with Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS SQS
- Ditching Elasticsearch: Implementing Typo-Tolerant Full-Text Search with PostgreSQL, pg_trgm, and Node.js
- Dropping Redis: Architecting Transactional Background Jobs in Node.js using PostgreSQL and Graphile Worker