Infrastructure

In this tutorial we will go through and setup a full stack search engine with React as the front end, Node and Express for the server, and PostgreSQL for the database. This search engine will be slightly more complex than a simple text search setup. For example, a user

Learn how to use Server-Sent Events (SSE) to stream events from a Node.js server to the browser.

WebSocket connections are like special communication channels that allow web browsers and servers to talk to each other in real-time…

Learn how Netflix uses GraphQL federation for its API architecture, offering a unified, curated API powered by decoupled back-end services.

Build APIs in Laravel with our book build an api with Laravel. The book teaches you about JSON:API specification, test-driven API development in Laravel etc.

The 2023 State of the API report covers the largest and most comprehensive survey on APIs, ever. More than 37,000 developers and API professionals shared their thoughts.

A fullstack template for building multi-tenant applications with custom domains using Next.js App Router, Vercel Postgres, and the Vercel Domains API.

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Learn four things to consider when building APIs related to HTTP status codes. And when consuming APIs, don’t do what I did. Read the documentation, understand how the API is designed, and code defensively around unexpected results.

Lessons from my longest production crisis

A new demand for storing an old data type in PostgreSQL.

Designing a system to be either stateful or stateless is an important choice with tradeoffs regarding its performance and scalability. In a stateful system, data from one session is carried over to the next. A stateless system doesn’t preserve data between sessions and depends on external entities such as databases or cache to manage state. […]