Backend

You've started a new job. As you dig deeper into the codebase, the WTFs per minute rate rapidly increases, and you're left wondering... "Where do I start?!". In this talk, I'll draw on [...]

Monad is a term that comes from functional programming, and some people swear by them for error handling. But what is a monad exactly? And what if told you, you may have actually [...]

So you’ve moved from a legacy database-centric architecture to a brand new Domain-Driven Design approach. Your coworker told you that this would be about speaking the language of the customer and putting the [...]

Generics are a programming language concept. In short, they allow you to write typed code without being specifically linked to a particular type. Many languages already support generics more or less natively: Java, [...]

During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features that were introduced in PHP 8.3, and some in earlier versions. Join me to have a look at how the type [...]

In this workshop, you will learn how to write a PHP extension. We will start by converting a function that we already have in PHP code into C, which we will then wrap [...]

Have you ever wondered how full-text search engines such as ElasticSearch or Algolia works? Let's find out! In this talk, we will build a RESTful full-text search engine from scratch, understanding how to [...]

When you've been tasked with creating an HTTP API, the fundamental decision you need to make is which architecture to choose. Should your API be RESTful? What about GraphQL? or RPC? In this [...]

GraphQL is known for being a query language for APIs used by companies all over the world. Often developers overlook its ability to compose data coming from multiple APIs. Companies are getting data [...]

Maintaining ultra-fast speed and web performance at scale all comes down to efficient caching, but when personalization comes into play, caching can be an immense challenge: it’s a tradeoff between caching enough variations [...]

Different CI/CD jobs that we run for a standard Node.js backend project, from testing to the creation of the production Docker image and scanning it for vulnerabilities, using GitHub Actions.

Are you tired of worrying about outside actors accessing your backend resources and racking up unwanted costs? Do you want to ensure that you're only paying for traffic generated by your app and [...]

Building a web application? Let's use Typescript. Building the backend for frontend? Let's use Typescript! Building the underlying infrastructure for all of this? Let's use Typescript too! During this session, we'll see how [...]

API governance is about making good APIs into great APIs that are delightful and productive to publish and consume. This talk will show you how to choose appropriate standards, a humane and manageable [...]

As a front end developer, building projects with RESTful API dependencies ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. Security implications, parallel development, time or budget restrictions for writing documentation, …, in an enterprise you might [...]

Are you interested in building distributed applications or microservice architectures, but don't know where to start? Join this session and learn how Dapr can make your life easier! Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, [...]

Accessing (backend) APIs can be a hassle for mobile engineers. Often, those APIs don't deliver the data in the format (or structure) we need, so we have to write custom parsing logic on [...]