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Engineering Trade-Offs Every Backend Engineer Must Understand
The fundamental trade-offs in backend engineering — consistency vs availability, latency vs throughput, simplicity vs flexibility, and how to navigate them.
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When Go Is the Right Choice (and When It Isn't)
An honest assessment of Go's strengths and weaknesses — when to choose Go over Node.js, Rust, Java, and when to avoid it.
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What 4+ Years of Backend Engineering Taught Me About System Design
Hard-won system design principles from building production systems — on complexity, trade-offs, data modeling, and the decisions that actually matter.
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10 Things I Learned After 4 Years as a Backend Engineer
Hard-won lessons from building production systems — on simplicity, failure modes, databases, and the things nobody teaches you in tutorials.
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