Backend
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Understanding and Avoiding N + 1 Queries
As a backend developer, you’re likely to feel like the best developer in the room when your server is fast, allowing you to fetch and use data in record time.
AM
Amanda Ene Adoyi
3/5/2026
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AI
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Structuring AI Microservices in Python
From folder structure to deployment basics, the reasons why each boundary exists. These choices directly affect scalability, deployment speed, and system reliability. This guide focuses on practical decisions that help your AI services stay reliable as they grow.
TO
Toluwanimi Fawole
3/4/2026
AI
15 min read
How to Debug AI Backend Systems
In this article, we will delve into Observability in AI systems. We will explore the fundamental problem, why your current logging system will fail you, how to build a proper observation system for AI systems, and finally, the debugging workflow that actually works.
SO
Solomon Eseme
3/2/2026
AI
7 min read
Designing a Production-Grade AI Chat Service with FastAPI
FastAPI helps you with the tools you need to build a backend that is fast, predictable, and ready for real traffic. But how then do you structure that backend to prevent your AI chat service from falling apart as the usage grows?
TO
Toluwanimi Fawole
2/23/2026
AI
7 min read
Why I Built the AI Backend Bootcamp
The production failures, the broken tutorials, and the framework that changed everything. The $400 production failure, the Twitter hallucination, and the lessons that became a 6-week bootcamp. The founder's story behind the AI Backend Engineer program.
SO
Solomon Eseme
2/10/2026
AI
14 min read
The 6 Layers Every AI Backend Needs
What I discovered is that production AI systems need six distinct layers. This article breaks down all six layers.
SO
Solomon Eseme
2/9/2026
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