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Ask HN: 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 4y agoIf 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)
- larrykubin 4y agoI second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I've been working on a side project that uses Supabase (built on PostgreSQL). There was a post on HN yesterday on PostgreSQL full text search and now I want to incorporate that as well.
- MichaelMoser123 4y agoDistributed Systems lecture series by Martin Klepmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_HdUFe97RItdiB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...
- pyuser583 4y agoNice!
- mbrodersen 4y agoI highly recommend his book. A great enlightening read.
- DougMellon 4y agoDesigning Data-Intensive Applications?
- mbrodersen 4y agoYep that’s the one.
- gardenhedge 4y agoRedwoodJS
- uraura 4y agoI don't learn new things recently. I read the source code of libraries to see how they are implemented.
- joshxyz 4y agomeilisearch, quickwit, typesense for search solidjs esbuild vite caddy, haproxy firecracker vm uwebsockets and uwebsockets.js