Engineering Blog

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

Spoiler alert: probably not.

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

Combining Node.js with Async Rust for remarkable performance

An interactive study of queueing strategies

From prompt to production with one integrated workflow.

Grow Your Expertise, Expand Your Influence

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

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

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

Practical patterns for implementing authorization

Distributed Systems Horror Stories: Part Two

Distributed Systems Horror Stories: Part One

Our best new releases and engineering blogs in 2023

The wizardry of AsyncLocalStorage

An interactive study of common retry methods

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

Overcoming Trust Issues and Vendor Lock-in Through an Open-Source Approach

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

The least sexy aspect of building Event-Driven Architectures

Uncovering hidden dangers when designing Event-Driven Systems

Taking the first steps towards an EDA

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

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

Transforming development and DevOps like we did the music industry

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

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

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

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

The story of how Encore ended up designing its config API

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

And how to avoid them. Naturally.

An internal package sees the light of day

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

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

It turns out identifiers were generic the whole time

An overnight success 4 years in the making.

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

Clone git repositories over gRPC to simplify your backend infrastructure

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

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.

Learn how to use Go's singleflight and errgroup packages, and other important design patterns for concurrency, with real-world examples.

Better tools for developing software