It’s 2 PM, and you transformed all the caffeine into code and created a new bank integration feature. Everything works great on your local computer. You deployed the code. At 3 PM, there’s a P1 outage. Every time the customer clicks on “Add Bank Account”, the backend server stops responding…

Structuring your code base seems like the last thing standing between you and scalability issues, but it is way more important than you think. A good folder structure is not a “good to have”, it’s a must. Let’s dive deep and see its importance, how to do it, and how…

Logging is a very important part of deploying a production ready application. If you have more than 0 customers, it’s highly likely that something will break. How will you know something is broken? How will you know what broke it? How will you debug it? Let’s make this blog go…

I know this sounds dumb but hear me out before you say anything you can’t take back. I’m using Nest.js and Prisma as the backend stack but you can read this blog and apply this for any other tech stack. Whenever you have no idea what could go wrong, the…

Well the documentation is not to blame here. But it kind of is. At Commenda we use Prisma as our ORM and Nest.js as our backend framework. When I started writing the backend from scratch back in March 2023, I followed the guidelines listed here. You need to understand the problem before you can see my innocence For those who are unfamiliar…

The crux — A colleague recently suggested I should read “Outlier by Malcolm Gladwell”, and I did. A one-line summary of the book, “Every great person comes across opportunities in time and space, that help them become great”. For example, a struggling actor meets a film director and spontaneously gets a role in…

This is going to be a memorable moment of your life. Your first hello world program in python. If you prefer a video version of this article, check out this video. To display some text on terminal, simply type print(“Hello, World!”) If you are not sure…

We will see how to set up a coding environment for Python. Here’s a few things which we will require to get started. 1. Surprisingly we will need Python to be installed on our system. Go to https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download the latest version of python. For windows you can download the graphical installer.

Do you want to start with Python development? Are you sure Python is the best language to learn as a beginner? What are the outcomes if you learn Python? Let’s dive right in. Why should I learn Python? It is a general-purpose programming language. That fancy term means you can use Python in different fields…