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The BackendBytes Newsletter
A weekly email for senior backend engineers. Production stories, original benchmarks, and architecture takes you can actually use — not another Medium-grade tech roundup.
What you get
Production deep dives
The incident that took down a production Postgres at 3am and how we fixed it — not a textbook summary of what Postgres is.
Original benchmarks
Real numbers we ran ourselves, with methodology, hardware, and raw data linked. No vendor marketing dressed as research.
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.
What you don't get
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- No “10 tips to 10x your career” content.
- No AI-generated articles. Every issue is written by a human.
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