Partnerships
Media kit
Sponsorship formats, the topics we cover, and the rules every sponsored piece follows.
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What we write about
63 published articles, each in one topic. Topics are listed alphabetically; the order says nothing about traffic.
AI engineering, RAG and vector databases (8 articles)
- LLM API Integration Patterns for Backend Engineers
- Your LLM Provider Will Have an Outage: Circuit Breakers, Fallback Chains, and Degraded Modes
- Building an MCP Server in Go with Code Mode: From 1.17M Tokens to 1,000
- Designing a Multi-Agent Backend: The Orchestrator Pattern
- Building Production RAG Pipelines: Chunking, Embeddings, and Retrieval at Scale
- Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: MCP Servers, Tool Calls, and the Attack Surface You're Not Watching
- Spring AI in Production: RAG Pipelines, Reliability, and Observability for Java Backends
- Vector Databases Compared: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate
Databases, Postgres, Redis and caching (6 articles)
- Caching Strategies at Scale
- Database Indexing Strategies: B-Trees, GIN, GiST, and Production Tuning
- Postgres EXPLAIN Cheat Sheet: Reading Query Plans Like a Pro
- PostgreSQL Query Planner Internals: From EXPLAIN to Expert Tuning
- Scaling Redis for High-Throughput Systems
- Zero-Downtime Database Migrations at Scale
Go (10 articles)
- Go Configuration Mastery: Production Patterns with Viper
- Go context.Context Cheat Sheet: Cancellation, Timeouts & Gotchas
- Go Context in Depth: Cancellation, Timeouts, and Debugging in Production
- Go Dynamic JSON: Parsing Unknown Schemas in Production
- Go Error Handling: errors.Is, errors.As, Wrapping, and Custom Types
- Go Graceful HTTP Shutdown: Zero-Downtime Production Patterns
- Go 1.26 Green Tea GC in Production: What Changes, How to Measure It, When to Opt Out
- Go Testing Best Practices: Table Tests, Mocks, and Race Detection
- Go Worker Pool Pattern: Production-Ready Concurrency Control
- Production-Grade Go API Design: Clean Architecture, Custom Errors, and Middleware That Actually Works
Go vs Java comparison (1 article)
Java and the JVM (12 articles)
- GraalVM Native Images in Production: From Seconds to Milliseconds
- Modern Java Collections: computeIfAbsent, Immutables, and Best Practices
- Java CompletableFuture: Chaining Async Operations with thenCompose
- Java Date and Time API: The Definitive Guide to java.time
- Java Singleton Pattern: Thread-Safe, Reflection-Proof, Serialization-Safe
- Java Streams: Pipeline Internals, Performance Traps, and Production Patterns
- Java Testing with JUnit 5 and Mockito: A Production Guide
- Java Virtual Threads: Project Loom, Pinning Hazards, and Production Migration
- JVM Cold Start in 2026: Leyden vs GraalVM Native Image vs CRaC
- Modern Java Features: A Practical Guide from Java 8 to 21
- SOLID Principles in Production: From Code Smells to Architectural Discipline
- Spring Boot REST: JPA, Validation, Exception Handling, and Testing
Kubernetes and DevOps (6 articles)
- Essential Docker Commands: The Complete Cheat Sheet
- Essential Git Commands: The Complete Developer Cheat Sheet
- Essential Kubernetes Commands: The Complete kubectl Cheat Sheet
- Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive: From Pods to Production
- Essential Linux Commands: A Backend Engineer's Cheat Sheet
- Terraform in Production: Modules, State Management, and CI/CD Patterns
Messaging, Kafka and queues (3 articles)
SRE and observability (2 articles)
System design, networking and protocols (15 articles)
- REST vs gRPC vs GraphQL: A Production Decision Guide
- Building Resilient Distributed Systems with Go
- Consistent Hashing: The Algorithm Behind Scalable Distributed Systems
- Distributed Rate Limiting at Scale: The Probabilistic Drop Architecture
- DNS Records: The Complete Production Guide for Backend Engineers
- HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3: The Protocol Evolution Guide
- Idempotency Patterns: Building Retry-Safe Distributed Systems
- Building an OAuth2 Authorization Server from Scratch
- gRPC and Protobuf: Building Service-to-Service APIs
- Microservices Architecture: From Monolith to Production-Ready Services
- OAuth2 and OpenID Connect: Production Security Patterns
- Rate Limiter Algorithms: Token Bucket vs Sliding Window
- TCP vs UDP vs QUIC: Protocol Selection Under Production Load
- Understanding Raft Consensus: The Algorithm That Keeps Your Database Honest
- What Happens When You Type a URL: The Complete Production Guide
Formats
- Sponsored deep dive — a technical article in your product's problem space, written in-house by BackendBytes to the same sourcing standards as every other article and labelled as sponsored. You review it for technical accuracy; you don't write it.
- Affiliate partnership — if your product has an affiliate program, it can appear in a clearly labelled partner box, but only in articles that already recommend your category of tool on its merits. The recommendation comes first; a partnership never creates one.
- Calculator sponsorship — a sponsor credit on one of our 4 free calculators: Postgres Connection Pool Sizer, Kafka Partition & Retention Calculator, Redis Memory Sizer and LLM Conversation Cost Calculator. The calculators get little traffic today, so this is a small placement.
Newsletter: sponsorships have not launched. We don't sell placements in the newsletter today, and this page will say so when that changes.
Editorial rules and disclosure
- Sponsored work is labelled as sponsored and disclosed in the first paragraph.
- We write it; sponsors review it for technical accuracy.
- Sponsored articles go through the same sourcing rules and build-time checks as everything else.
- Paid links are marked
rel="sponsored". - We only promote products we'd recommend to our own readers.
The full rules are in our editorial standards on sponsorship.
Pricing and contact
Pricing on request. Email [email protected] with a sentence about your product and the format you're interested in.