55 articles tagged #Backend Development
ChatGPT can scaffold a background job scheduler in minutes, but the default output often ignores locking, duplicate execution, and concurrency edge cases. Here's how to prompt for code that actually holds up in production.
ChatGPT can draft Dockerfile multi-stage builds quickly, but it often ships dev dependencies, root users, and massive base images into production. Here's how to prompt it accurately and audit what it gives you.
ChatGPT can sketch pagination logic in seconds, but it consistently stumbles on off-by-one errors, incorrect total-page calculations, and edge cases like empty result sets. Here's how to prompt your way to correct, production-ready pagination every time.
PostgreSQL's UPDATE FROM syntax can silently update the wrong rows when a join matches multiple times — and you won't see an error. Here's how to diagnose, reproduce, and permanently fix this subtle bug in your queries.
ORMs like Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, and Hibernate give you a comfortable safety net — but that net has holes. Here's exactly where raw SQL sneaks back into ORM-heavy projects and how to close those gaps before an attacker finds them.
ChatGPT can draft retry logic fast, but the default output often misses jitter, ignores maximum attempt caps, or quietly creates infinite loops. Here's how to prompt it correctly and validate what it gives you.
Stripe subscription state drift happens when your database and Stripe diverge without any error — and users suddenly lose access to features they paid for. Here's how to find it, fix it, and stop it recurring.
ChatGPT can scaffold Celery configs fast, but it often misses retry logic, acks_late settings, and visibility timeout traps that let tasks disappear without a trace. Here's how to prompt your way to configs that actually hold up in production.
ChatGPT can draft gRPC proto files fast, but it routinely gets field types, service method signatures, and streaming patterns wrong. Here's how to prompt it correctly and catch the mistakes before they hit your build.
Feature flags in multi-tenant SaaS apps can silently bleed settings between customers — enabling features for tenants who shouldn't have them or disabling paid features mid-session. Here's where the isolation breaks and how to fix it.
Choosing between Upstash and Redis Cloud for your serverless app isn't obvious — pricing models differ wildly, and latency behaves differently at cold start. Here's what actually happens when you run both under real load.
ChatGPT can scaffold logging middleware in seconds, but the default output often silences exceptions instead of surfacing them. Here's how to prompt your way to middleware that actually preserves error context.