// Articles
Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
AWS Secrets Manager stores and rotates API keys and credentials outside your source tree. How rotation, IAM and GetSecretValue work for backends, and how Encore declares secrets in code so values never land in the repo.
Amazon CloudWatch collects metrics, logs and alarms for AWS workloads. What each signal is for, how dashboards and log insights fit backends, and how Encore observability runs on your cloud alongside CloudWatch Logs.
AWS Lambda runs code in response to events without you managing servers. How Event Functions, cold starts and event sources work, when always-on services win, and how Encore runs backend services on your AWS account from infrastructure declared in code.
Supabase Edge Functions run short TypeScript handlers on Deno at the edge. When that model wins for webhooks and light APIs, when always-on services with Postgres and queues on your own cloud fit better, and how Encore works alongside.
Install Fiber v3, define routes and handlers, parse JSON bodies, add middleware and groups, then see when Encore fits as a Go backend framework with built-in infrastructure instead of a pure HTTP router.
Orchestration puts a central coordinator in charge of a multi-step process. Choreography lets services react to events and drive the next step themselves. When each pattern fits, and how Encore Pub/Sub supports event choreography without inventing a workflow engine.
Claude Code can edit a backend and open a pull request in minutes. The hard part is the deploy job: how the change reaches your AWS or GCP account without putting long-lived cloud keys in the agent session. The safe way for AI agents to ship backend changes to your cloud.
Zero-downtime database migration keeps old and new application versions readable against one shared schema while you change it. Expand-contract steps, dual-write pitfalls, safe cutover, and how Encore applies Postgres up migrations automatically.
A bad backend release needs a rehearsed undo path: redeploy the previous image, watch database expand/contract rules, and use feature flags when compute alone cannot save you. How rollback works on AWS and Kubernetes, and how Encore environments and deploy history fit without inventing a one-click traffic switch.
CircleCI is a dedicated hosted CI service with orbs, caching and self-hosted runners. When teams look past it, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite and Jenkins are the usual picks. How they compare, and how application infrastructure still sits outside CI.
DevOps asked every team to own production. Platform engineering answers with golden paths and self-service. What changed for backend teams on AWS and GCP, and how infrastructure from code shrinks the custom platform surface.
GitOps keeps a Kubernetes cluster in sync with manifests in Git. The main tools, from Argo CD and Flux to Spinnaker and push-based pipelines, and when infrastructure from code replaces the manifest layer for application infra.