How I write backends with Federico Pereiro

Software Sessions

Federico has been writing backends for web applications since 2012 and is the co-founder and chef of alto;code. He wrote a post on GitHub named "How I write backends" that summarizes his process.

We discuss:

• His current stack
• Redis as a primary data store
• Reducing the number of layers in your software
• How duplicating input validation makes code harder to understand
• Integration tests over unit tests
• Minimizing dependencies
• Why you should never normalize alerts

Federico Pereiro

• Personal Site
• How I write backends
• Our company
• ac;pic, our pictures application
• ac;tools, our backend services

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