Tag: Backend development
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Interoperability in 2025: Beyond the Erlang VM
Posted on August 29, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
The Erlang Virtual Machine has, historically, provided three main options for interoperability with other languages and ecosystems, with different degrees of isolation. By Wojtek Mach.
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PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator: What it means
Posted on August 26, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>). It's a small feature with huge potential, yet it still took years to happen. By Larry Garfield.
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Commenting in MySQL: Syntax, best practices, and examples
Posted on August 22, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
MySQL comments, in the structure of text, are ignored by the MySQL engine and used to explain and document your database code. They don't affect query execution. You should used your database comments as a resource to other individuals who will review or modify the database. Comments should adhere to best practices to increase readability to other developers. By Devart.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics product-and-design leadership-and-career
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A (very) brief history of Erlang
Posted on August 1, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I first encountered Erlang in 2017 while working with RabbitMQ, a message broker built on Erlang. Its ability to handle high concurrency, fault tolerance, and real-time execution made it ideal for our ETL process. Erlang was born at Ericsson in 1986 to power telecom systems demanding "nine-nines" availability (99.9999999% uptime). Open-sourced in 1998, it gained traction beyond telecom, influencing modern messaging apps like WhatsApp and Discord. By James Seconde.
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New Akka deployment options: elasticity on any infrastructure
Posted on July 25, 2025, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Akka's latest deployment options represent a significant evolution in distributed systems architecture, addressing long-standing challenges in transitioning from development to production environments. The introduction of self-managed nodes and self-hosted Platform regions extends Akka's "build once, deploy anywhere" philosophy while maintaining the framework's core technical advantages. By Tyler Jewell.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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How to develop a RAG system using Node.js
Posted on July 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this blog post, we'll build a simplified but powerful RAG system using Node.js and OpenAI's GPT model, perfect for developers curious to bridge the gap between raw LLM power and domain-specific intelligence. By Deep Panchal.
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Building a real-time video AI service with Google Gemini
Posted on July 16, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
The article describes the development of a real-time video AI service for a major global service provider, leveraging Google Gemini's Multimodal Live API and Akka's SDK. The team successfully built, deployed, and scaled the service to handle thousands of transactions per second, far exceeding customer requirements. Key components included video ingestion, augmentation, and conversational storage, all deployed within a private Akka environment provisioned in a Google VPC in just 2 hours. By Johan Andrén.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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Wget to wipeout: Malicious Go modules fetch destructive payload
Posted on June 30, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Sockets threat research team uncovered a destructive supply-chain attack targeting Go developers. In April 2025, three malicious Go modules were identified, using obfuscated code to fetch and execute remote payloads that wipe disks clean. The Go ecosystem's decentralized nature, lacking central gatekeeping, makes it vulnerable to namespace confusion and typosquatting, allowing attackers to disguise malicious modules as legitimate ones. By @socket.dev.
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Why Go rocks for building a Lua interpreter
Posted on June 28, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length short
The interpreter's structure in Go is divided into packages for scanning, parsing, and execution, leveraging Go's interfaces for Lua value representation. This design choice, along with Go's garbage collector and testing tools, simplified development compared to the PUC-Rio Lua implementation. Challenges included error handling and compatibility issues with Lua's standard libraries. Nice one!
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How to improve JVM-based application startup time?
Posted on June 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Optimizing JVM startup time is vital for many applications. This post explores various strategies, comparing their effectiveness through benchmarking a simple Netty server. Class Data Sharing (CDS) and its evolution, AppCDS, cache class data to reduce initialization overhead. By Michał Zyga.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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Alternative ways to design with functional programming
Posted on June 10, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Mark Seemann introduces an article series exploring alternative design approaches to a specific problem originally presented by Oleksii Holub. The core issue involves identifying song recommendations from data repositories containing impurities (like unreliable user activity). This series challenges the notion that some problems resist purely functional solutions, particularly those with 'real-world' constraints.
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Compose multiplatform for iOS is stable and production-ready
Posted on May 24, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Kotlin Multiplatform 1.8.0 stabilizes Compose for iOS, marking a milestone in cross-platform development. With this update, Kotlin Multiplatform becomes a complete solution for mobile development, enabling flexible code sharing across both business logic and UI without compromising app quality or losing control over platform-specific capabilities. By Ekaterina Petrova.
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