Federico has been writing backends for web applications since 2012 and is the co-founder and chef of alto;code. He wrote a post on GitHub named "How I write backends" that summarizes his process.

We discuss:

His current stack
Redis as a primary data store
Reducing the number of layers in your software
How duplicating input validation makes code harder to understand
Integration tests over unit tests
Minimizing dependencies
Why you should never normalize alerts

Federico Pereiro

Related Links
Fred Brooks & The Mythical Man Month (conceptual integrity)
Steve Yegge - Code's worst enemy
Steve Yegge - Platforms rant (no backdoors, all services talking through the wire as if they were external actors)
Book of Hook - Suffer no jankiness
Taiichi Ohno & the Toyota Production System
Auto-activation in software

How I write backends with Federico Pereiro