Backend Tech

Maintaining software dependencies and updating external packages and dependencies is something that nobody really wants to do, and it is often forgotten and neglegted. We would all much rather spend our time actually [...]

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. PHP is the right tool for a lot of jobs in your web application, but it might not be the best [...]

Whether you're building APIs, deploying microservices, or just curious about what happens beneath the surface of your applications, understanding networking is essential. This talk explains the core concepts of networking - from the [...]

So you have built your fancy JSON REST API, maybe even add a fancy OpenAPI spec of your API. And then you have to add file functionality to your REST API. You will [...]

Object oriented programming is no silver bullet, like any other paradigm. So, how to pick the right one? You simply don't. Modern programming languages are slowly adopting multiple paradigms, and for good reasons. [...]

Introducing WhatsApp as our first channel in a new messaging domain turned out to be less of a technical project and more of an exercise in product strategy, diplomacy, and learning just how [...]

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 [...]