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HTTP services, microservices, RPC, auth, caching, and resilient API design.

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Node, Deno & Bun JS runtimes, frameworks, and edge/serverless adapters. Python Web Django, Flask, FastAPI, async servers, and ORMs for Python backends. JVM Backends Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, and reactive stacks on the JVM. .NET & C# ASP.NET Core, Minimal APIs, gRPC, and cloud-ready patterns. PHP & Laravel/Symfony Frameworks, queues, and performance patterns for PHP 8+. Go & Rust Services Compiled backends for scale, observability, and efficiency. GraphQL & RPC Schemas, federation, protobuf, and contract-first service stacks. Auth, Identity & Sessions OAuth/OIDC, sessions, JWTs, SSO patterns, and security considerations. Caching, Queues & Background Jobs Caching strategies, job queues, retries, and background processing patterns.

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