Amir Baddour's Recent LinkedIn Posts

🚀 Backend Concepts Made Simple #13 | Connection Pooling Explained Have you ever wondered why backend applications don't create a new database connection for every request? Imagine your API receives 5,000 requests per minute. If every request creates a new database connection, authenticates, executes a query, and…

🚀 Backend Concepts Made Simple #14 | Why Logging Is More Important Than You Think Imagine this... A user reports: "The application isn't working." That's all the information you have. No error message. No screenshot. No steps to reproduce it. Where do you start? This is where logging becomes one o…

🚀 Backend Concepts Made Simple #11 | SQL vs NoSQL One of the most common questions in backend development is: Should I use SQL or NoSQL? The answer isn't about which database is better. It's about choosing the right database for your application's needs. 🗄️ SQL Databases Examples: PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Serve…

🚀 Learning Backend Engineering Changed the Way I Look at Software Before I started learning backend development, I judged an application by what I could see. A clean interface. Fast navigation. Useful features. Now, I find myself thinking about everything happening behind the scenes. When I click "Login…

📚 Weekly Backend Recap #1 Consistency beats intensity. One of my goals this year is to become a better backend engineer not just by writing code, but by understanding the architecture and engineering decisions behind modern applications. This week, I shared several backend concepts that every developer should un…

🚀 What I've Learned This Week as a Backend Engineer This week reminded me that backend engineering is about much more than writing code. Over the past few days, I explored topics like: ✅ Database Indexing ✅ JWT Authentication ✅ REST API vs. GraphQL The biggest lesson I took away wasn't a specific technology,…