Everything we have written on Backend.
How a good team builds an ATS, candidate portals, and a CRM-style pipeline that integrate with job boards and automate the manual matching and admin that eats your recruiters' days.
How trades, construction, and field-service businesses move off whiteboards and spreadsheets to job scheduling, mobile apps for crews, offline support, quoting, and photo capture.
Accounting firms, consultancies, and agencies run on spreadsheets and a dozen disconnected tools. Here is how custom web apps and integrations replace the duct tape without a painful migration.
How a good team builds production tracking, inventory, and dashboards that talk to your ERP and MES, replaces aging on-prem systems, and stays reliable on the shop floor.
What it really takes to build a CRM your team will actually use: the MVP, the hard parts, a sane stack, rough costs, and the traps to avoid.
What it really takes to build a membership site people keep paying for: scope, the stack we use, rough costs, and the expensive traps to dodge.
How to build a B2B quoting tool that sales actually uses: pricing logic, approvals, PDF output, the hard parts, plus rough timelines and costs.
A founder's honest guide to building a fintech app: the MVP, the money plumbing that breaks, the stack we'd pick, and rough costs and timelines.
Chat, presence, live dashboards: how real-time apps actually work, the hard parts teams underestimate, the stack we pick, and rough costs.
Metered and hybrid pricing can fit your product better than a flat plan, but the numbers have to be right every time. Here is how to build metering that does not leak revenue.
How a good team audits, stabilises, and takes over a half-built or abandoned codebase without a needless rewrite, and how to spot what is salvageable.
What KYC and AML actually are, where they fit in onboarding, how to integrate a verification provider, and how to build it so a failed or edge-case check never strands a user.
How a double-entry ledger, idempotent webhooks, and a daily reconciliation job keep your records in sync with your payment provider, and the failure cases most teams skip.
How database indexes actually work, how to read a query plan, composite index ordering, and the costs nobody warns app developers about.
Practical rules for REST APIs that survive years of change: stable contracts, honest status codes, cursor pagination, and versioning you can actually maintain.
GraphQL solves real problems, but it is not a default. Here is how to tell when it earns its keep and when REST or RPC will serve you better.
Most projects do not need a fancy database, just one boring, reliable one that does everything well. Here is the honest case for Postgres.
How to use Redis caching without shooting yourself in the foot: real patterns for read-through caches, invalidation, TTLs, and the stampede problem.
How auth actually works in the App Router in 2026: session cookies, middleware checks, Server Action mutations, and where to verify so you don't ship a hole.
How to build multi-tenant SaaS that stays simple as you grow: choosing an isolation model and enforcing tenant boundaries in Postgres.
When to push work off the request path, how to choose a database queue or Redis, and how to write a worker that survives crashes and retries.
How to build webhook receivers that survive retries, duplicates, and 3am incidents: verify signatures, return fast, process async, stay idempotent.
A practical guide to dockerizing a Next.js or Node app: one tidy multi-stage Dockerfile, a sane compose file for local dev, and the traps that bloat images.
What logs, metrics, and traces actually buy you in production, plus a practical structured-logging and tracing setup for a Next.js and Node stack.
A practical guide to handling file uploads safely in Node and Next.js: validation, presigned uploads, content-type checks, and safe storage.
A practical look at rate limiting algorithms, where to enforce them, and how to keep limits consistent across many servers without melting your database.
You do not need LaunchDarkly to ship behind a flag. A Postgres table, a cached read, and a typed helper get you most of the value.
A practical, ordered security checklist for web apps: auth, sessions, input validation, headers, dependencies, and the boring stuff that actually stops breaches.
What it actually takes to build a booking app: the timezone traps, double-booking risks, payment and reminder plumbing, plus realistic timelines and rough costs.
Subscription billing looks simple until proration, failed payments, and tax show up. Here is how to scope it realistically, what to watch out for, and rough costs.
