Backend Development articles
Browse 26 posts in Backend Development, written by engineers at SoftwareCrafting.
Backend Development articles
- Upgrading to PostgreSQL 18: Async I/O, UUIDv7, and a Zero Surprise Rollout
- API Versioning Strategy: How to Evolve a Public API Without Breaking Clients
- Secure Multi-Tenant APIs: Isolation, Authorization, and Auditability
- 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 an ORM in Node.js? Prisma, Sequelize, TypeORM, and When to Use Raw SQL
- 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
- What is a Webhook? A Beginner’s Guide to Event-Driven API Communication
- 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
- Achieving SOC2 Compliance: Building Tamper-Proof Audit Logs and Revision Histories with PostgreSQL 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