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Backend Engineering

Reducing API Response Time with Asynchronous Processing

As a Backend engineer, one of the important parameters to validate the work is the number of ms at which the API returns the required resource.

In short

Focus only on the resources that the client needs as a response. Move everything else to async to reduce response time. Use messaging brokers like Kafka for multi-service processing. In Spring, use @EnableAsync and @Async for asynchronous tasks.

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Learning

Learning to Build Applications: A Bicycle Analogy

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Career

Reflections on Depth vs. Breadth in Learning

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Personal Thoughts

The Lesson of Ownership

There was a guy, observing work done by 2 men on the agricultural field.

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