Backend

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I've been building web backends since ~2004 when they were just called websites. With these essays I want to share the hard lessons learned about serverless, databases, APIs, and the ops that keep them alive.

Backend articles

2 articles from February 2021 · show all

Reverse engineer a GraphQL API to automate love notes – CodeWithSwiz 24

February 23, 2021

We used a man-in-the-middle attack to snoop an app's API traffic, replayed it in a GraphQL client, and successfully put it inside an AWS Lambda 🤘

React Bricks - visual blocks editor for NextJS #CodeWithSwiz 22

February 9, 2021

Tried a new visual editor for NextJS and CreateReactApp. Got a site up in 20min 🤘