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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 • Jan 10

Loved the visualizations here, great work!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Means a lot coming from you! 🙏

Martins Gouveia • Jan 10

Thanks for sharing.

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Glad you liked it! :)

Sharif yt • Jan 13

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 13

Thank you for reading it :)

Nikola Perišić • Jan 12 • Edited

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 12

Happy to help :)

Henry H Bassey • Jan 14

Hi Nikola

Nikola Perišić • Jan 15

Hi Henry

Henry H Bassey • Jan 15

What's your sm handle? I'll like to follow you.

Nikola Perišić • Jan 15

You can find me on the following sm:
github.com/perisicnikola37
linkedin.com/in/perisicnikola37/

Ansell Maximilian • Jan 14

Thanks for sharing! The graphics are nice

Alvin Mbuvi • Jan 10

we need more content like this. thanks !!!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

More coming! 🙏

Alvin Mbuvi • Jan 10

I hope so :)

Adriana • Jan 13

This is very interesting

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 13

Glad you liked it :)

Robert Taylor • Jan 11

Wonderful explanation skills! Recommend!!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Appreciate it :)

Eustachio • Jan 11

Very informative. Thank you!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Glad I could help. :)

shema • Jan 11

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 12

glad I could help :)

Sudhir Huilgol • Jan 11

Well explained

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Glad you liked it :)

MilesWK • Jan 11

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Yes

orderla88 • Jan 11

Thank you.

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

🙏

John Rey Baylen • Jan 10

Awesome! Simple explanation but really useful

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Glad you liked it :)

Afsana Zannat • Jan 11

A cool read

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

🙏

Çağan Şen • Jan 10

could you make some more articles like this? its awosome

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Sure! Any particular topic in mind?

afreen the great • Jan 11 • Edited

Informative article !

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

thank you :)

YAHAYA MINKA'IL IBRAHIM • Jan 10

Thanks 😊

Monday David S. • Jan 11

Really insightful!!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Thank you! Happy to help. :)

Shrijal Acharya • Jan 11

Loved the way you did the visualization. 👌

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Thanks a lot! :)

Henry H Bassey • Jan 14 • Edited

I loved this. The image analysis is amazing.

keyr Syntax • Jan 10

Very nice article, keep it up!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Thank you!

Abdulraheem Ibrahim Ayigoro • Jan 11

Thanks for sharing this piece!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 12

🙏

Makechi Eric • Jan 13

I like it. I find it very resourceful

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 13

glad you liked it :)

Ayush Mishra • Jan 10

Awesome

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Thank you!

Francieli Sauthier • Jan 11

Thank you!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

🙏

Abhinav Singh • Jan 10

Very Informative

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 10

Thank you!

Kaustubh Tripathi • Jan 11

That was very informative, thanks!

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Happy to help :)

Khusel-Erdene • Oct 10

Thanks for sharing

Anjali Pandey • Jan 11

Great visualisation

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Thank you :)

Shreyas Kulkarni • Jan 11

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

I am glad I could help. :)

Sameer • Jan 11

Awesome

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

Thank you :)

Dilshod Kamaletdinov • Jan 11

loved it, thanx

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

🙏

Mamun Mia Turan • Jan 21

Thanks for sharing This information

Юра Арутюнов • Jan 24

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

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 24

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

Priyanshu Ganatra • Jan 12

Very informative read!

Bobby Bridgeman • Jan 11

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.

Sanjeev Sharma • Jan 11

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).

Yaroslav • Jan 22

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

Elowen Hartwell • Jan 10

Guys I need suggestions!!!

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