backend.done.right
Backend
engineering,actually.
Five minutes a day. Learn the systems work that actually ships: databases, queues, traces, deploys, replication, and the production instincts behind them.
Production-shaped lessons for engineers who are done with toy tutorials.
learning.path.online
One practical backend stack, broken into daily moves.
Runtime keeps the curriculum tight: each lesson teaches a production concept, gives you the vocabulary, then asks you to reason like the person who owns the system.
Databases
Indexes, consistency, query shape, caches, and the latency you feel when the schema fights back.
querying
Microservices
APIs, queues, retries, failure boundaries, service mesh basics, and the cost of one more hop.
dispatching
Observability
Metrics, traces, logs, alert fatigue, dashboards, and finding the broken thing before users do.
tracing
Distributed Systems
Replication, consensus, CAP tradeoffs, timeouts, backpressure, and what correctness costs.
syncing
ios.build.ready
Open the app, finish a lesson, keep your production instincts warm.
Runtime is built for short, sharp sessions: the kind you can finish before a deploy, between meetings, or right after seeing a concept in the wild.