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Articles tagged with #backend

Authentication vs Authorization: What They Actually Mean, and Why Confusing Them Is a Backend Engineer's Most Expensive Mistake
Authentication and authorization are two of the most talked-about topics in backend development and two of the most quietly misunderstood. Every developer runs into them, and most can roughly explain
Jun 22, 202611 min read
The three ways your backend talks to a smart contract
Last week, I broke down what a production Web3 product actually looks like. The smart contract is around 40% of the code. The backend infrastructure is the other 60%. Today, I am going one level deepe
May 18, 20266 min read1
What a production Web3 product actually looks like
Most developers think building a Web3 product means writing a smart contract and calling it a backend. That's not the whole picture. I have worked on several Web3 products before, and the smart contra
May 11, 20264 min read17