Backend Engineering

Mastering Real-Time Go: Building Scalable WebSockets with Gorilla

13 October 2025·2046 words·10 mins

Web Development Go Basics Backend Engineering Golang Websockets Gorilla Real-Time Concurrency Backend Go-1-24

Introduction # In the fast-paced landscape of 2025, “refreshing the page” is a relic of the past. Whether you are building a crypto trading dashboard, a live collaborative editing tool, or a simple customer support chat, your users expect data to flow instantly. They expect real-time interaction.

Architecting Scalable Microservices in Rust: A Production-Ready Guide

9 October 2025·1876 words·9 mins

Backend Engineering Distributed Systems Rust Microservices GRPC Tonic Axum System Design Kubernetes

The era of asking “Is Rust ready for the web?” is long behind us. As we move through 2025, Rust has firmly established itself not just as a systems language, but as the premier choice for building low-latency, high-reliability distributed systems.

Mastering PHP Memory Management and Garbage Collection: A Deep Dive

1 October 2025·2041 words·10 mins

PHP Internals Performance Backend Engineering Php-8 Memory-Management Garbage-Collection Performance-Tuning Xdebug Best Practices Profiling

Introduction # For a long time, the “fire and forget” nature of PHP scripts meant that memory management was rarely a top priority for developers. A script would run, render HTML, and die—taking all its allocated memory with it.

Mastering Secure File Uploads in PHP: Validation, Storage, and Best Practices

24 September 2025·1691 words·8 mins

Web Development PHP Security Backend Engineering Php-8 Security File-Upload Validation Best Practices Backend

Allowing users to upload files is a fundamental feature of the modern web, but it is also one of the most dangerous. In the landscape of 2025, where automated bots and script kiddies are scanning for vulnerabilities 24/7, a poorly implemented file upload script is an open invitation for Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks.

Mastering Database Connection Pooling in Node.js: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

13 September 2025·1636 words·8 mins

Backend Engineering Performance Database Node-Js Mysql PostgreSQL Mongodb Performance Scalability Architecture

Introduction # If you are building a high-throughput Node.js application in 2025, handling database connections inefficiently is the fastest way to kill your performance. Whether you are dealing with a monolithic REST API or a distributed microservice architecture, the database is almost always the bottleneck.

High-Performance MySQL: Advanced Query Optimization for PHP Developers

8 September 2025·1918 words·10 mins

Database Optimization PHP Development Backend Engineering Mysql Php-8 Sql-Performance Database-Indexing Backend-Architecture Pdo

Introduction # It is a scenario every senior PHP developer has faced: your application works flawlessly in the development environment with a few hundred records. But as soon as production hits 500,000 rows, that dashboard widget—the one the CEO checks every morning—starts timing out.