Backend Tech

When you've been tasked with creating an HTTP API, the fundamental decision you need to make is which architecture to choose. Should your API be RESTful? What about GraphQL? or RPC? In this [...]

GraphQL is known for being a query language for APIs used by companies all over the world. Often developers overlook its ability to compose data coming from multiple APIs. Companies are getting data [...]

Maintaining ultra-fast speed and web performance at scale all comes down to efficient caching, but when personalization comes into play, caching can be an immense challenge: it’s a tradeoff between caching enough variations [...]

Have you ever wondered how full-text search engines such as ElasticSearch or Algolia works? Let's find out! In this talk, we will build a RESTful full-text search engine from scratch, understanding how to [...]

Are you tired of worrying about outside actors accessing your backend resources and racking up unwanted costs? Do you want to ensure that you're only paying for traffic generated by your app and [...]

API governance is about making good APIs into great APIs that are delightful and productive to publish and consume. This talk will show you how to choose appropriate standards, a humane and manageable [...]

Are you interested in building distributed applications or microservice architectures, but don't know where to start? Join this session and learn how Dapr can make your life easier! Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, [...]

Accessing (backend) APIs can be a hassle for mobile engineers. Often, those APIs don't deliver the data in the format (or structure) we need, so we have to write custom parsing logic on [...]

Relational databases are great for storing relational data and performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with RDBMS? Do you need to store and query [...]