Engineering Blog

Encore.ts — 9x faster than Express.js, 3x faster than ElysiaJS & Hono

Combining Node.js with Async Rust for remarkable performance

Jun 17, 2024

Queueing

An interactive study of queueing strategies

May 22, 2024

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Beyond PaaS - A smarter approach to cloud-native development in 2025

Encore aims to be a flexible alternative to PaaS that lets you own your cloud.

Feb 28, 2025

Designing tools for developers means designing for LLMs too

How we used LLMs to produce instructions for LLMs to build Encore applications.

Jan 15, 2025

Worker Pooling — 5x performance for CPU-intensive JavaScript workloads

Launch Week Day 5

Dec 13, 2024

Advanced Validation in Encore.ts

Launch Week Day 4

Dec 12, 2024

Encore Open Source, independent of Encore Cloud

Launch Week Day 3

Dec 11, 2024

Public Object Storage Buckets + R2 Support

Launch Week Day 2

Dec 10, 2024

Custom Middleware in Encore.ts

Launch Week Day 1

Dec 9, 2024

Encore.ts: a new type of framework

How Encore.ts is more than just another backend framework, and why it's worth paying closer attention to.

Sep 26, 2024

Fastify v5 breaking changes: should you upgrade?

Spoiler alert: probably not.

Sep 17, 2024

Encore.ts cold starts are 17x faster than NestJS and Fastify

We've benchmarked cold startup times for popular Node.js frameworks

Sep 4, 2024

Encore.ts — 9x faster than Express.js, 3x faster than ElysiaJS & Hono

Combining Node.js with Async Rust for remarkable performance

Jun 17, 2024

Queueing

An interactive study of queueing strategies

May 22, 2024

Encore AI API Creator

From prompt to production with one integrated workflow.

May 10, 2024

Elevate with Encore and Ardan Labs

Grow Your Expertise, Expand Your Influence

May 9, 2024

Introducing: Neon Serverless Postgres in Encore

We've added full support for Neon's dynamic scaling and branching capabilities.

May 8, 2024

Encore is fully Open Source

Encore's Open Source tools can now be used without an Encore account, plus we've improved our free and paid plans.

May 7, 2024

Encore.ts

Encore is now available for TypeScript, powered by a new high-performance Rust runtime.

May 6, 2024

AuthZ for small teams

Practical patterns for implementing authorization

Apr 4, 2024

The Thundering Herd Problem

Distributed Systems Horror Stories: Part Two

Jan 30, 2024

Kubernetes Deep Health Checks

Distributed Systems Horror Stories: Part One

Jan 10, 2024

our story

Year in Review 2023

Our best new releases and engineering blogs in 2023

Jan 4, 2024

TypeScript

Tracing TypeScript's Trails

The wizardry of AsyncLocalStorage

Nov 10, 2023

Retries

An interactive study of common retry methods

Oct 10, 2023

You Can’t Unboil a Frog

How to Cope When Your Tech Stack is a Hot Mess of Complexity

Sep 12, 2023

The PaaS Dilemma

Overcoming trust issues and vendor lock-in through an open-source approach

Aug 3, 2023

Understanding Go 1.21 generics type inference

Breaking down the release notes, with concrete explanations and annotated examples

Aug 9, 2023

DevOps

Long Term Ownership and Maintenance of an Event-Driven System

The least sexy aspect of building Event-Driven Architectures

Jul 27, 2023

Building for Failure

Uncovering hidden dangers when designing Event-Driven Systems

Jul 20, 2023

Making a Business Case for an Event-Driven Architecture

Taking the first steps towards an EDA

Jul 13, 2023

Event-Driven Architecture: What You Need to Know

What is an Event-Driven Architecture and Why do I need One?

Jul 6, 2023

Scrubbing sensitive data at 180MiB/sec/core

Redacting sensitive data from traces with static analysis and JSON tokenization.

Jun 8, 2023

From Spotify to DevTools

Transforming development and DevOps like we did the music industry

Apr 25, 2023

Backend Developers deserve a Sous-Chef

Imagine the frustration of a master chef, shackled by the constant need to peel potatoes.

Apr 17, 2023

Yet Another Developer Platform

If you're spending more time on tooling than product, you're doing it wrong.

Mar 24, 2023

Is Go good for backend development?

A look at how Go compares to other languages when building cloud backends

Feb 27, 2023

Encore Update

Full-stack Preview Environments for speed and confidence

Simple, real-world testing of end-to-end changes with full-stack environments for each PR

Dec 22, 2022

Encore Update

What do we really mean by microservice configuration?

The story of how Encore ended up designing its config API

Oct 27, 2022

Cloud

Designing an algorithmic cloud infrastructure provisioning system

Defeating cloud clutter (a not-so-mythical beast)

Sep 22, 2022

5 Common microservices pain points

And how to avoid them. Naturally.

Aug 9, 2022

go get it

testscript, a hidden gem the Go team kept locked away — go get it #002

An internal package sees the light of day

May 6, 2022

go get it

Taming SQL and ORMs with sqlc — go get it #001

Achieving something better than the best of both worlds with sqlc.

Apr 28, 2022

Putting the fun back into software development with Encore v1.0

Encore’s founder André Eriksson shares how his frustrations with building for the cloud led him to create the backend development platform he believes will transform developers' lives, and announces the company has raised $3 million in seed funding.

Apr 19, 2022

How we used Go 1.18 when designing our Identifiers

It turns out identifiers were generic the whole time

Mar 25, 2022

How we got 1500 GitHub stars in 1 week

An overnight success 4 years in the making.

Mar 15, 2022

Distributed tracing made simple

Everything's on fire! Oh that's fine, that's normal.

May 4, 2021

Git clone over gRPC

Clone git repositories over gRPC to simplify your backend infrastructure

May 10, 2020

Simplifying Secrets for Go

Learn how Encore makes writing secure code much simpler than before. Never feel tempted to commit secret keys to source code again.

Mar 5, 2020

The Service-Oriented Architecture Tradeoffs

Understand the pros and cons on the spectrum from monolith to microservices, and how you can make informed decisions about how to architect your application.

Feb 26, 2020