Ask HN: Back end engineers, what new “thing” should I learn?

In a relatively slow moving company tech wise. What new tech have you learned recently and would advise checking out?

If I wanted to learn more back end I would just learn more about PostgreSQL features. It seems like a solid long term investment. You can bet on it even if the Rails vs. Node vs… thing is uncertain.

There is a lot of innovation running atop of it too: Suprabase and things like that for example (which are more funky things that can be learnt as needed)

larrykubin 4y

I second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I've been working on a side project that uses Supabase (built on PostgreSQL). There was a post on HN yesterday on PostgreSQL full text search and now I want to incorporate that as well.

MichaelMoser123 4y

Distributed Systems lecture series by Martin Klepmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

mbrodersen 4y

I highly recommend his book. A great enlightening read.

DougMellon 4y

Designing Data-Intensive Applications?

mbrodersen 4y

Yep that’s the one.

pyuser583 4y

Nice!

uraura 4y

I don't learn new things recently. I read the source code of libraries to see how they are implemented.