Backend

Choosing between REST and GraphQL for an internal API
Backend
Choosing between REST and GraphQL for an internal API

Engineering teams rarely regret picking a boring technology until an edge case exposes its limits. When designing internal services, the friction usually appears as either a cascade of multiple round-trips over REST endpoints or an opaque GraphQL query that brings down a production database. Choosing between them should be a question of operational overhead, not personal ...

By BrainSoft  |   05 September 2026
Keeping two systems in sync without a nightly batch job
Backend
Keeping two systems in sync without a nightly batch job

A nightly batch job that copies data between two systems is easy to build and easy to trust, right up until it silently fails on a Tuesday and nobody notices until a customer complains that their order is missing from the second system. The job "worked" in the sense that it ran. It did not work in the sense that mattered. The fix is not a f ...

By BrainSoft  |   04 September 2026
Where Laravel apps slow down, and how to find it
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Where Laravel apps slow down, and how to find it

Laravel is fast enough for almost anything until it suddenly is not. When a page that felt instant starts taking two seconds, the cause is usually one of a short list of familiar problems. Here is where to look, roughly in the order that returns the most for the least effort. Count your queries firs ...

By BrainSoft  |   03 September 2026