HACKER Q&A
📣 senda

Back end engineers, what new “thing” should I learn?


In a relatively slow moving company tech wise. What new tech have you learned recently and would advise checking out?


  👤 quickthrower2 Accepted Answer ✓
If I wanted to learn more back end I would just learn more about PostgreSQL features. It seems like a solid long term investment. You can bet on it even if the Rails vs. Node vs… thing is uncertain.

There is a lot of innovation running atop of it too: Suprabase and things like that for example (which are more funky things that can be learnt as needed)


👤 MichaelMoser123
Distributed Systems lecture series by Martin Klepmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

👤 uraura
I don't learn new things recently. I read the source code of libraries to see how they are implemented.

👤 joshxyz
meilisearch, quickwit, typesense for search

solidjs

esbuild vite

caddy, haproxy

firecracker vm

uwebsockets and uwebsockets.js


👤 gardenhedge
RedwoodJS