Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?

Re:Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer sho... by Zealotux on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:20AM (#27711146)

I'm currently learning back-end coming from a front-end career, and I started reading "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann, seems to be a must-have for anyone who wants to get serious in this field.

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Re:Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer sho... by davidkell on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:39AM (#27711364)

+1 For this recommendation, an exceptional book. In particular chapters 2-3 demystify how databases work, and provides an intuition on when to use different kinds of databases and query languages without the typical hype (spoiler alert - use an RDBMS!)

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Re:Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer sho... by humbleMouse on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:17PM (#27714210)

Yes this is a great book and a perfect example of language agnostic knowledge that is useful.

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