Backend

104 articles · all categories

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

7 articles from 2011 · show all

December 2011

A lesson about client-side templating

Simple trick for testing forms full of checkboxes with django

November 2011

Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript

October 2011

Quick and easy way to getting burned by nginx

August 2011

I learned two things today 27.8.

May 2011

node-unshortener can unshort any url

April 2011

Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency