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Level UI • 18 hours • 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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Tochi27 • Sep 12 • in Articles • 4 min read
Redis Caching Strategies for High-Performance APIs
Redis Caching Strategies for High-Performance APIs The Cache That Made My API Faster—and Introduced a New Problem. When I first started thinking seriously about API performance, my instinct was simple: If the database is slow, optimize the databa...
  • backendengineering
  • redis
  • systemdesign
  • performance
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Betini Akarandut • Sep 1 • in Articles • 17 min read
Building Offline-First Systems for Low-Connectivity Agritech
> A note on the architecture > > This article describes lessons from a production agricultural technology platform. Some implementation details, operational parameters, identifiers, and business-specific logic have been generalized or omitted to avoi...
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  • backendengineering
  • devops
  • cloud
  • systemdesign
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Betini Akarandut • Sep 1 • in Articles • 17 min read
Building Offline-First Systems for Low-Connectivity Agritech
> A note on the architecture > > This article describes lessons from a production agricultural technology platform. Some implementation details, operational parameters, identifiers, and business-specific logic have been generalized or omitted to avoi...
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  • backendengineering
  • devops
  • cloud
  • systemdesign
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anik_313 • Aug 21 • in Articles • 15 min read
How Should You Structure a Software Architecture?
Hey developers! 👋 Welcome back to the journey from business requirements to production-ready systems. A founder walks into a development team and says: > "We need an ERP." Sounds simple. Until you start asking questions. Where should users live...
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  • systemdesign
  • saas
  • softwarearchitecture
  • backendengineering
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Rahul • Jul 10 • in Articles • 4 min read
Building a Concurrency-Safe Movie Reservation System
Building a Concurrency-Safe Movie Reservation System with FastAPI, Redis, and PostgreSQL Introduction One of the most interesting challenges in backend engineering isn't building CRUD APIs—it's designing systems that continue to behave correctly w...
  • backend
  • backendengineering
  • concurrency
  • scalability
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SuMiTa • Jun 11 • in Articles • 2 min read
How to Create a Trigger That Prevents an Update
To stop a table update in modern MySQL, you use the SIGNAL statement. This statement allows you to return an error state and a custom message to the application, which immediately aborts the triggering operation and rolls back the uncommitted transac...
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  • mysql
  • databasedevelopment
  • backendengineering
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Rahul • Jun 9 • in Articles • 4 min read
Understanding Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption as a Backend Engineer
While learning networking, I kept hearing terms like: HTTPS TLS SSL certificates Public keys Private keys I understood they were related to security, but I never really understood how encryption actually worked underneath. Once I started lear...
  • backend
  • backendengineering
  • networking
  • cryptography
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Tom Smithverified • 15 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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Rahul • Jun 9 • in Articles • 4 min read
Understanding NAT as a Backend Engineer
After learning about TCP, HTTP, TLS, and encryption, the next networking concept I wanted to understand was NAT. I had always known that my laptop gets a private IP address from the router. Something like: 192.168.1.2 But websites somehow see a ...
  • backend
  • backendengineering
  • networking
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FullStackWebDeveloper • May 17 • in Articles • 3 min read
The Tech Scaling Dilemma: Why You Need Smarter Systems, Not More Personnel.
When a digital platform hits a growth milestone, operational cracks inevitably begin to show. Whether it is an unexpected delay in data processing, sudden performance drops during high-traffic hours, or a rising backlog of software bugs, the platform...
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