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7 steps to building scalable Backend from scratch

Anmol Baranwal on January 08, 2025

Creating a scalable backend from scratch can be very hard. With the right approach, you can build something ready to grow as your app does. Today...
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Saurabh Rai ā€¢

Good way to get to know different terms about backend scalability. Nice work Anmol!

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks for reading, Saurabh! šŸ”„ This was kinda tough for me since Iā€™m not super familiar with the topic, but I learned a few things myself too.

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keyru Nasir Usman ā€¢

Managing Microservices architecture is not easy as we think it is. It needs expert engineers with excellent knowledge. Even big companies like Netflix suffered from catastrophic technical glitch when it streamed live boxing fight between mike tyson and jake paul on November 15/2024.

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

I didn't know about that (would read more about it) and I'm aware of how tough it can get to manage microservices, that is why so many developers recommend going with monolithic.

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Abubakar Sanni ā€¢

As was pointed out, it is still better to go the microservice way than the monolithic way because it is more easier to trace the point of failure in a microservice architecture than in a monolithic architecture.

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Elektropay ā€¢

Excellent description of a backend and it was also a great read. Awesome post Anmol!

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Aswin Barath ā€¢

Wow, this is a very detailed blog on Backend stuff. Thanks for writing this.
Keep sharing more content, Anmol āœ

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks for reading, Aswin! šŸ”„ Backend has become such a complex topic with so many things to cover these days.

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Bobby Iliev ā€¢

Great article, as usual! Well done!

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks for reading Bobby! šŸ”„ I tried my best to provide something of value.

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Tosin Akinbowa ā€¢

I really enjoyed this article, thumbs up, Anmol! Even as a junior developer, I was able to follow and understand a significant portion of it.

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks for reading, Tosin! šŸ™Œ I'm happy it was easy to understand. I always try to write that way since I know the feeling of too much jargon.

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dunnyk ā€¢

Whoa... ton of information there...
Tech likes no idler

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Marcus Kohlberg ā€¢

Nice one!

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks Marcus! šŸ™Œ

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Bap ā€¢

Great article, as usual!

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks so much for reading, Bap. Means a lot! šŸ”„

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Shihab Malayil ā€¢

Great one, Thank you and continue teaching us šŸ˜€

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Thanks for reading, Shihab! It means a lot if a guy like me can share knowledge with awesome community members like you. I will keep writing and improving! šŸ”„

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Fernando Silva ā€¢

Nice post, it grabs a lot of concepts, I also really enjoyed the links to dive deeper into certain topics. Thanks

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ExoCody ā€¢

Great post, Anmol! Loved the detailed breakdown of steps...especially the emphasis on automation and smart infrastructure management. šŸ‘

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Meer ā€¢

Great Work!
Loved it.

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David Miranda ā€¢

Hi you forgot a cornerstone in this ecosystem and it is distributed systems, it has been in the business for decades and everything depends on it nowadays

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Anmol Baranwal ā€¢

Yep, I didn't cover that because I wanted to stick to just 7 steps (to keep it concise). Plus, load balancing and distributed systems kinda align towards the same thing (even if they're not exactly the same), so I thought I would leave that out.

The resources attached might have covered this, but still appreciate your feedback!

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Adesoji1 ā€¢

Great work, could you help review my infra

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Daniel Yaluff ā€¢

This was awesome! Thanks!

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Riya ā€¢

Great post! Thanks for sharing such valuable insights!