api design
Designing a Webhook Processing System That Survives Failure
A webhook processing system is the part of your app that receives event messages from other services, such as a payment provider, and handles them…
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backend development
How to Choose a Database: One Food Delivery App, From Launch to Scale
Learning how to choose a database comes down to two honest questions: what shape is your data, and how will you actually read and write it? Logos,…
analytics engineering
Modern Data Pipeline Design: Pipelines That Tell the Truth
Data pipeline design is the set of choices that decide how raw data from your sources becomes tables people can trust. These choices include the o…
apis
How API Requests Work, From Tap to Data
To understand how API requests work, picture a relay race. A request is passed from step to step: a DNS lookup, a secure connection, the request i…
data engineering
Database Normalization Explained, One Messy Online Shop at a Time
Database normalization is a way of organising tables so every fact is stored exactly once, in one place, so your data can never disagree with itse…
