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Level UI • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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bukahdev • 5 hours • in Articles • 1 min read
The Semicolon That Stole 5 Days of My Life
I have never been this frustrated with a single bug in my life. And the culprit? The classic, infamous semicolon. I recently started exploring Express.js and wired up a MongoDB database for an assignment. Connecting the database was a small hurdle,...
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  • software-development
  • debugging
  • backend-development
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bukahdev • Oct 23 • in Articles • 3 min read
Moving from Frontend JS to Node.js
For a while now, frontend JavaScript has been my comfort zone. I like the immediate feedback: you tweak state, manipulate the DOM, fix a UI interaction, and see the results instantly on screen. Recently, though, I shipped the live frontend build of ...
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  • backend-development
  • web-development
  • mvp
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Md Siddikur Rahaman • Oct 11 • in Articles • 19 min read
Building Your First Production-Ready API with Python: A Complete Guide for Full Stack Developers
Application Programming Interfaces APIs are the backbone of modern software development. They allow different applications, services, and systems to communicate with each other. Whether you are building a web application, a mobile app, an e-commerce ...
  • python
  • fastapi
  • backend-development
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Harrison Fisk • Oct 9 • in Articles • 1 min read
My Journey as a PHP Developer: Building Solutions Through Code
As a PHP developer, I enjoy turning ideas into functional websites and building backend solutions that solve real-world problems. For me, programming is not just about writing code; it’s about understanding challenges, finding practical solutions, an...
  • php
  • webdevelopment
  • backend-development
  • softwareengineering
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nate • Oct 1 • in Articles • 3 min read
How Java Developers Build Scalable Applications and Backend Systems
As a Java developer, I enjoy building applications that solve real problems, handling complex logic, and exploring how software works behind the scenes. Java is a powerful programming language that helps developers create everything from small applic...
  • java
  • javadeveloper
  • backend-development
  • softwareengineering
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Tom Smithverified • 23 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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xDK0d3r • Sep 28 • in Articles • 4 min read
Building a URL Shortener with FastAPI and SQLite — V1 Complete
After completing my Personal Expense Tracker, I started my fourth project: a URL Shortener. This was also my first web backend project, so the goal was to move from CLI applications into building a small web application and get more practical experie...
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  • python
  • fastapi
  • web-development
  • backend-development
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peter isaiah • Sep 14 • in Articles • 4 min read
A Tiny Nim Microservice, Three Real Bugs, and What They Taught Me About My Own Mummy Fork
I recently needed something small: a POST /api/contact endpoint for my portfolio site at https://www.isaiah.name.ng that takes a name, email, and message, validates it, and emails it to me. The kind of thing you'd normally knock out without thinking ...
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  • nim
  • backend-development
  • microservices
  • webdev
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Gift Balogun • Sep 8 • in Articles • 1 min read
🚀 Introducing ReplyPilot | AI Customer Support for Growing Businesses
I’m excited to make ReplyPilot publicly available. Most businesses don’t need another generic chatbot. They need something that can actually handle customer conversations, answer questions using their real business information, and know when it sho...
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  • softwaredevelopment
  • backend-development
  • programming
  • brutecode
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codewithnuh • Sep 6 • in Tutorials • 12 min read
Foundations of System Design: Learn It the Way I Wish Someone Taught Me
When I first started learning system design, I felt overwhelmed. Load balancers. Caches. Message queues. Replication. Sharding. Distributed systems. There are a lot of terms. And most guides throw them at you like a vocabulary test. But here is th...
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  • backend-development
  • systemdesign
  • distributedsystems
  • api
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Hassan Mubiru • Sep 4 • in Articles • 2 min read
StreetJS Is Open Source — And I’m Looking for Developers to Build It With Me
Building a backend framework alone teaches you a lot. It also makes one thing very clear: A framework becomes better when more developers challenge its ideas. That’s why I’m opening the door wider for developers who want to contribute to StreetJS...
  • opensource
  • nodejs
  • typescript
  • backend-development
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Valentine Shimanovsky • Aug 20 • in Articles • 1 min read
I Enjoy Software Development Even More With AI
I keep reading that AI turns an engineer into a reviewer of generated code and removes the enjoyable part of the work. My experience with Codex is quite opposite will try Claude one day. I have always enjoyed software engineering, and now I enjoy it ...
  • ai
  • agenticai
  • software-engineering
  • backend-development
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anik_313 • Aug 17 • in Articles • 6 min read
Why API Architecture Is a Business Decision, Not a Technical One
Modern software products are API-driven businesses. Whether building SaaS platforms, ERP systems, marketplaces, mobile applications, or internal enterprise software, nearly every business operation eventually becomes an API request. Customers place...
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  • backend-development
  • systemdesign
  • saas
  • api
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codewithnuh • Aug 6 • in Tutorials • 5 min read
Production Health Checks & Graceful Shutdown - Complete Guide
Production Health Checks & Graceful Shutdown !https://coderlegion.com/?qa=blob&qablobid=4923688071191255538 > Most backend tutorials teach you how to start a server. > > Very few teach you how a server should stop. That might sound strange at firs...
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  • devops
  • javascript
  • typescript
  • backend-development
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Daniel Ahaotu • Jul 22 • in Articles • 1 min read
🚀 One of the most interesting things I discovered about Node.js is its asynchronous nature.
"How can a single-threaded runtime handle so many requests efficiently?" The answer lies in asynchronous programming. Imagine you're at a library. You ask the librarian to find a book that's stored in the archive. Instead of standing at the desk d...
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  • nodejs
  • web-development
  • backend-development
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prasadekke • Jul 21 • in Articles • 5 min read
Go Slice Initialization Gotchas: The Hole-Creating Bug I Keep Seeing (And a Linter That Catches It)
Go slices are simple on the surface. Under the hood, the interaction between length, capacity, and append has a specific failure mode I've been bitten by more than once — and seen in enough code reviews to write about. The bug is invisible at compile...
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  • go
  • programming
  • backend-development
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prasadekke • Jul 20 • in Articles • 4 min read
Profiling a Go Service in Production: pprof in 10 Minutes
Go ships with a profiler built in. No third-party tools, no agents to install, no instrumentation to add upfront. If your service imports net/http/pprof, you can profile it live in production right now — CPU usage, memory allocations, goroutine count...
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  • go
  • backend-development
  • programming
  • concurrency
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prasadekke • Jul 20 • in Articles • 1 min read
context.Context Is Not Optional: A Practical Guide to Cancellation in Go Services
Every Go service that does I/O — database calls, HTTP requests, queue polling, file reads — should be passing a context.Context through every layer. In practice, a large number of codebases treat context.Context as optional plumbing that gets added l...
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  • go
  • programming
  • backend-development
  • concurrency
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SuMiTa • Jul 16 • in Articles • 2 min read
Dealing with Feign Decode Exception: Error While Extracting Response
In a microservice ecosystem, Spring Cloud OpenFeign makes synchronous HTTP requests look like simple, clean Java interface calls. It handles everything under the hood—until the data structure changes, a service returns a dynamic error payload, or a m...
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  • springboot
  • web-development
  • backend-development
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Ibti • May 30 • in Articles • 2 min read
I Built a Full POS & Inventory System with Laravel (Shop-Control)
A few days ago, I decided to go beyond tutorials and build something that reflects how real businesses actually operate. That’s how Shop-Control was born — a full-stack Point of Sale POS and inventory management system built with Laravel. This proj...
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  • laravel
  • php
  • backend-development
  • webdev
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oluwatosinolamilekan • May 4 • in Articles • 8 min read
Multi-Tenant Security in SaaS: Data Isolation Patterns That Actually Work
Multi-tenancy is the economic engine of SaaS. Sharing infrastructure across customers reduces cost and simplifies operations. But it introduces a risk that can end your business overnight: tenant data leakage. When one customer can see another cus...
  • laravel
  • nodejs
  • systemdesign
  • backend-development
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