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Backend Developer

Frameworks

Django

Batteries-included Python web framework with a built-in ORM and admin panel.

Express

Minimal, unopinionated Node.js web framework.

FastAPI

High-performance async Python web framework with automatic OpenAPI docs.

Laravel

PHP web framework with expressive syntax and a large first-party ecosystem.

NestJS

Opinionated, TypeScript-first Node.js framework built on Express/Fastify with Angular-style architecture.

Ruby on Rails

Convention-over-configuration full-stack web framework for Ruby.

Spring Boot

Convention-based framework for building production-ready Java applications.

Data Access

Drizzle ORM

Lightweight, SQL-first TypeScript ORM with first-class migrations.

Hibernate

The standard object-relational mapping framework for Java, widely used as the JPA provider behind Spring Boot.

Prisma

Type-safe ORM for Node.js and TypeScript with schema-first migrations.

SQLAlchemy

Python SQL toolkit and ORM for working with relational databases.

TypeORM

TypeScript/JavaScript ORM supporting both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns.

API Technologies

Apollo GraphQL

The most widely used GraphQL server and client implementation, distinct from the GraphQL specification itself.

GraphQL

Query language for APIs that lets clients ask for exactly the data they need.

Hasura

Instant GraphQL API engine generated directly from a Postgres schema.

gRPC

High-performance RPC framework using Protocol Buffers over HTTP/2.

tRPC

End-to-end typesafe APIs for TypeScript without a schema or code generation.

Caching & Messaging

BullMQ

Redis-backed job/message queue library for Node.js.

RabbitMQ

Widely deployed open-source message broker.

Redis

In-memory data store used for caching, queues, and pub/sub.