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Backend Terms Explained Like You Are Five

Posted on:Sep 28, 2026
  1. Gently Down The Stream - A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka, as a children’s story
  2. The Children’s Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes - Introducing Phippy, an intrepid little PHP app, and her journey to Kubernetes.
  3. A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem - You’ll often hear about the CAP theorem which specifies some kind of an upper limit when designing distributed systems. This introductory tutorial explains the concept by comparing it with a real world situation.

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