Backend and Rinha de Backend
The backend track connects programming, systems, databases, APIs, and observability. Its focus is to develop technical maturity for understanding performance, concurrency, persistence, and service architecture.
Rinha de Backend
Rinha de Backend is a community competition focused on performance, service architecture, and efficient resource use. It brings programming, systems, databases, APIs, and observability closer to professional technical problems.
- Target audience: advanced students, developers, and professionals interested in backend and performance.
- Format: technical challenge with public specification, service implementation, and performance comparison.
- Common technologies and languages: HTTP, APIs, Docker, databases, queues, proxies, Linux, and backend languages.
- Level: professional.
- Expected preparation: participants need to understand service development, concurrency, persistence, local deployment, and performance analysis.
- Links: 2026 edition 路 2025 路 2024 Q1 路 2023 Q3 路 X 路 Bluesky 路 track resources
How To Contribute
Professionals and advanced students can propose challenges, review specifications, help assemble test environments, discuss metrics, and support meetings on APIs, databases, queues, Linux, and performance. See Individuals and professionals.