📄️ Backend Engineering as a Discipline
WHAT BACKEND ENGINEERING REALLY IS
📄️ API Design, Idempotency & Transactions
API DESIGN AS A LONG-TERM CONTRACT
📄️ Async Processing, Queues & Sagas
WHY ASYNCHRONY IS UNAVOIDABLE
📄️ Performance, Scaling & Observability
PERFORMANCE IS A BUSINESS REQUIREMENT
📄️ Case Study: Idempotent Write API
A user clicks "Submit" and sees a spinner. The network flakes.
📄️ Incident Command & On-Call Engineering
When production is unstable, technical skill matters, but leadership quality matters more.