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 [...]