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10 Backend Terms Every Frontend Developer Should Know

Sanjeev Sharma on January 09, 2025

When a backend dev gives their update in the daily standup meeting, most frontend devs are clueless about the work they're doing. They use a lot of...
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Madza •

Loved the visualizations here, great work!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Means a lot coming from you! 🙏

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Sharif yt •

Great breakdown of backend concepts for frontend devs! Clear, concise, and super helpful for bridging the knowledge gap. Thanks for sharing! 🙌

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you for reading it :)

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Martins Gouveia •

Thanks for sharing.

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Glad you liked it! :)

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Ansell Maximilian •

Thanks for sharing! The graphics are nice

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Nikola Perišić • • Edited

I'm glad you covered all the important terms. Thanks for sharing

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Happy to help :)

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Henry H Bassey •

Hi Nikola

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Nikola Perišić •

Hi Henry

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Alvin Mbuvi •

we need more content like this. thanks !!!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

More coming! 🙏

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I hope so :)

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Easy to follow content. Thanks for sharing this encredible skill.

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Sanjeev Sharma •

glad I could help :)

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YAHAYA MINKA'IL IBRAHIM •

Thanks 😊

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Abdulraheem Ibrahim Ayigoro •

Thanks for sharing this piece!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

🙏

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Afsana Zannat •

A cool read

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Sanjeev Sharma •

🙏

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Adriana •

This is very interesting

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Glad you liked it :)

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Makechi Eric •

I like it. I find it very resourceful

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Sanjeev Sharma •

glad you liked it :)

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Sudhir Huilgol •

Well explained

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Glad you liked it :)

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Henry H Bassey • • Edited

I loved this. The image analysis is amazing.

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John Rey Baylen •

Awesome! Simple explanation but really useful

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Glad you liked it :)

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afreen the great • • Edited

Informative article !

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Sanjeev Sharma •

thank you :)

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keyr Syntax •

Very nice article, keep it up!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you!

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Monday David S. •

Really insightful!!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you! Happy to help. :)

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Ayush Mishra •

Awesome

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you!

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Çağan Şen •

could you make some more articles like this? its awosome

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Sure! Any particular topic in mind?

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Robert Taylor •

Wonderful explanation skills! Recommend!!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Appreciate it :)

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Eustachio •

Very informative. Thank you!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Glad I could help. :)

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orderla88 •

Thank you.

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Sanjeev Sharma •

🙏

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MilesWK •

That's so cool! Did you use excalidraw for the visulizations?

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Yes

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Shrijal Acharya •

Loved the way you did the visualization. 👌

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thanks a lot! :)

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Abhinav Singh •

Very Informative

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you!

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Kaustubh Tripathi •

That was very informative, thanks!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Happy to help :)

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This Post was posted on Dou.ua btw, the biggest Tech community in Ukraine. And it is really good!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Woah! It's big deal. 🙏 I’m glad you found the post valuable!

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Priyanshu Ganatra •

Very informative read!

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Francieli Sauthier •

Thank you!

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Sanjeev Sharma •

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Dilshod Kamaletdinov •

loved it, thanx

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Sanjeev Sharma •

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Mamun Mia Turan •

Thanks for sharing This information

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Sameer •

Awesome

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you :)

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Khusel-Erdene •

Thanks for sharing

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Shreyas Kulkarni •

It was a lot easier to understand the basics of these with the illustrations and simple words used. 👌

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Sanjeev Sharma •

I am glad I could help. :)

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Anjali Pandey •

Great visualisation

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Sanjeev Sharma •

Thank you :)

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Bobby Bridgeman •

Most of these are not backend dev terms, but more to do with DevOps! Access control, proxies, load balancing and cdn's for example would all be managed by DevOps.

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Sanjeev Sharma •

I'd say it's a gray area.

When you go for a system design interview as a backend dev, this knowledge is expected(and highly used).

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Yaroslav •

What is the difference between load-balancer, api-gateway, and proxy?

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Elowen Hartwell •

Guys I need suggestions!!!

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Shushant •

A great read 🙌🏻 .... please continue making such articles