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Join discussionApr 3 · 7 min read · When I started optimizing backend code, one of the first things I noticed was that our APIs were slow. Not broken — just slow. Averaging 1.2 seconds per request across 15+ endpoints. For a messaging p
Join discussionMar 26 · 2 min read · The Prisma MCP server is the official first-party MCP integration for Prisma, the most downloaded ORM for Node.js and TypeScript with ~7.8 million weekly npm downloads. Unlike most MCP servers that ship as a single package, Prisma takes a dual-mode a...
Join discussionMar 21 · 4 min read · When I deployed my Express + TypeScript + Prisma backend to Render, I didn’t expect to spend an entire afternoon chasing down one error after another — but that’s exactly what happened. This post is a
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Mar 6 · 4 min read · Every time I started a new backend project with Prisma, I found myself writing the same thing over and over. A controller for users. A controller for posts. Pagination logic. Error handling. The same
Join discussionMar 6 · 21 min read · ORMs 101: The Ultimate Guide — Prisma, Drizzle, Sequelize, TypeORM & When to Use Raw SQL Every backend developer eventually has to answer the question: "How should my application talk to the database?" You can write raw SQL, use a query builder, or r...
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