Backend Directory

Logging Sucks

Boris Tane's argument that traditional logging is broken for distributed systems and that "wide events" — one comprehensive, high-cardinality structured event per request per service — are the fix. Log what happened to the request, not what your code is doing.

Agent Registration with auth.md

Open protocol for autonomous agents to self-register for services without human intervention — a standardized auth.md file + HTTP endpoints replace OAuth and sign-up forms.

Drizzle ORM

TypeScript ORM with a SQL-like query API, type-safe schema definitions, and multi-database support.

Effect

TypeScript library for building robust apps with typed errors, structured concurrency, retries, and first-class OpenTelemetry observability.

ScrapingBee

Web scraping API that handles headless Chrome rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot bypassing automatically.

Unipile

Unified API for reading and sending messages across LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp, Telegram, and calendars.