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The BackendBytes Newsletter
Email for senior backend engineers. New deep dives on distributed systems, databases, and production infrastructure — sent when they publish, not on a filler schedule.
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Production deep dives
How Postgres actually behaves when autovacuum falls behind at 3am — mechanism and failure modes, not a textbook summary of what Postgres is.
Reproducible benchmarks
Harnesses you can run on your own hardware, with the methodology spelled out. No vendor marketing dressed as research, and no numbers we can't show you how to reproduce.
Architecture POV
Opinionated takes on microservices, message queues, observability, and data stores — with the steelman of the opposing argument, not strawmen.
Interactive tools
Calculators, cheat sheets, and reference cards. First up: the Postgres Connection Pool Sizer.
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