--- title: Best Backend Development posts — October 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Backend Development posts from October 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/backend/best-of/2021/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/backend/best-of/2021/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Backend Development posts — October 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Backend Development posts from October 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Backend Development — October 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/full-stack-developer-roadmap-2021-r2ry0rlky "Full-stack developer roadmap 2021") Article Hashnode · 5y Full-stack developer roadmap 2021 A Full-Stack developer is a developer who can manage both Front End and Back End web development. Front-End developers deal with website design, outlook, and make creative websites. Back-End is managed using programming languages like Java, PHP, Ruby, and Python. 105 11 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/6-chrome-vs-code-extensions-for-backend-developers-cer0defsa "6 Chrome & VS Code Extensions For Backend Developers") Article DZone · 5y 6 Chrome & VS Code Extensions For Backend Developers This article shows you different extensions you can install in your Chrome or Firefox web browser or via Visual Studio Code. Many backend developers don’t know about extensions or are reluctant to use them. Yet, developers often overlook the benefits of using these extensions. Here’s a list of three Chrome extensions for backend devs with alternatives for each one. 65 4 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/clean-code---part-3-pxsopxrzxj "Clean Code - Part 3") Article Quastor Daily · 5y Clean Code - Part 3 Facebook built a platform that all backend services can use to automatically shard their applications. Shard Manager manages tens of millions of shards hosted on hundreds of thousands of servers. It is used for hundreds of applications in production. The root cause of the Internet outage was a failure in Akamai’s Edge DNS service. 55 1 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/supabase-30m-series-a-ghmcvgldv "Supabase $30m Series A") Article Supabase · 5y Supabase $30m Series A Supabase just raised $30M, bringing our total funding to $36M. As of September, we've launched over 50,000 databases. Active databases are growing 35% per month. Over 40,000 developers have signed up to Supabase from some of the world's leading companies. 29 2 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/db-lens---explore-data-execute-sql-metrics-disk-usage-more-isl28ztil "DB Lens - Explore data, execute SQL, metrics, disk usage & more") Article Product Hunt · 5y DB Lens - Explore data, execute SQL, metrics, disk usage & more DB Lens is an opensource database client for Mac, Linux & Windows. It helps developers to explore, observe & understand the database in a better way. DB Lens is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish. It is available as a free download or as a paid version. 16 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/build-internal-tools-remarkably-fast--qdacaqstt "Build internal tools, remarkably fast.") Article Pointer · 5y Build internal tools, remarkably fast. Built for developers Retool is highly hackable, so you’re never limited by what’s available out of the box. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can build it in Retool. Connect your queries and logic to prebuilt components like tables and dropdowns. 14 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-look-for-hasura-learn-with-25-courses-on-graphql-databases-hasura-yxgkaq-sm "A new look for Hasura Learn with 25+ courses on GraphQL, Databases & Hasura") Article Hasura · 5y A new look for Hasura Learn with 25+ courses on GraphQL, Databases & Hasura Hasura Learn is an educational site that helps developers get up to speed with GraphQL. In the last 2 years, we have added over 25 tutorials, as well as Database courses and Hasura courses into the mix. These tutorials are open source and are built and maintained with the help of the amazing GraphQL & Hasura community. 10 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-explained-jrnamy2u4 "Serverless Explained") Article Quastor Daily · 5y Serverless Explained An overview of the Serverless Trend. Functions as a Service (FaaS) - server-side logic is still written by the developer, but it’s run in stateless compute containers that are event-triggered, ephemeral, and fully managed by a third party. 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