Backend Development
5 posts
Xiao Li Rewrote Go Monolith to Rust Axum, Company Saved $800K+ Yearly, His Salary Hit $2M
This isn’t a story about flexing how fast Rust is. It’s about how tech choices translate to real money, and why most rewrite projects can’t replicate this result.
Rust Design Patterns: 3 Best Practices Senior Backend Engineers Always Use
Discover the Rust design patterns senior engineers swear by: Newtype pattern prevents invalid states, ownership design reflects system boundaries, enum error handling makes failures predictable. Master these Rust best practices to build rock-solid backend code and say goodbye to midnight incidents.
gRPC is 10x Faster Than REST? Why Your Team Hasn't Switched
gRPC can indeed be much faster than REST, but most teams are right to stick with REST. Let’s talk about the real cost behind the speed.
I Fired My Entire Node.js Stack — Rust Rebuilt It in 3 Weeks (The Ugly Truth)
API latency dropped from 850ms to 8ms, monthly costs from $12,000 to $900. Sounds great? The price was three months of hell and a team on the verge of collapse. This is a real backend migration story.
I Thought Rust Was Over-Engineering—Until I Saw the Production Logs
A 2 AM production incident made me rethink Rust. From 8 crashes per hour to zero crashes—this isn’t about language wars, it’s about trust.