The Beauty of Backend Code Is in What You Don’t See
You can spend a whole afternoon making a request go from 600ms to 90ms. No new feature. No UI change. No one notices. At least, not in the way they notice a new button. But they do notice. They just don’t know what they’re noticing. They stop hesitating. They stop mistrusting the product. They stop waiting for the spinner to betray them. That feeling is backend. And I think that’s where the beauty is: in the parts that disappear. ...