For the last few years, several members of my team and I have been working with a Fortune 500 global company to help build a Node.js ecommerce platform. We learned many valuable lessons along the way. Lessons we feel are too valuable not to share.

Lots of things change year over year, especially in backend development. GraphQL, as well as Node.js, are no exception! We’ll cover some background context for the changes leading up to 2023 and then highlight the most relevant changes that happened last year. Without further ado, let’s hop in!

Overwhelmed by the options for schema validation? Comparing tools can be confusing. With so many options, how do you know which one is best for your needs? In this post, we’ll compare AJV, Joi, Yup, and Zod in their functionality and usability.

If you're looking for a database for your Node.js application, Postgres, DynamoDB and MongoDB are all great options.

Think Event Sourcing and CQRS are just new buzz architectures that can’t be put into practice? Think again! This post will show both the theory behind Event Sourcing and how to implement Event Sourcing and CQRS in your project.

Temporal is a great tool for batch processing—in this post, we’ll show you all of the solutions that Temporal provides for when you need to handle tens, hundreds, or even thousands of operations.

How much should you trust your APIs? Trust between the frontend and backend is fundamental—in most modern web applications, both sides are ultimately accountable for the application.