Resources
Practical guides on backend architecture, operating a backend with real users on it, and driving backend changes from a coding agent over MCP. Every claim in these guides describes the live product.
Learning paths
The guides are organized around three decisions: which backend approach fits your product, what to get right before real users arrive, and how to wire your tools to it.
Understand where an autonomous backend fits against no-code tools, traditional engineering, and BaaS platforms — and what "runs itself" actually means.
Think through data models, auth boundaries, storage, realtime, and the operational surface — monitoring, rollback, and governance — before real users arrive.
Connect Claude Code or Cursor over MCP — your agent reads the live schema and builds against real tables, auth, and storage, never a throwaway mock.
Latest guides
Each guide covers one decision — with the trade-offs, the failure modes, and working code where it helps.
AI backend generation turns a plain-English description into a database, REST APIs, and auth. This guide explains how it actually works, what the output looks like, how to verify it, and why generation alone is not the hard part.
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A step-by-step walkthrough of building a production backend without writing backend code: describing your data model, generating tables and APIs, connecting a frontend with the SDK, handling auth, and changing the schema safely after launch.
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No-code builders, Supabase and Firebase, AI app builders, autonomous backend platforms, or hiring a developer — a non-technical founder's honest guide to backend options in 2026, with real costs, real failure modes, and a decision framework.
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Cursor and Claude Code make frontends fast, but agents hallucinate the backend. How to give your coding agent a real API contract instead of mocks — over MCP — and ship full-stack apps dramatically faster.
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Shipping an AI product means running a backend with unusual demands: conversation storage, vector search, event-driven pipelines, streaming status, and per-user cost control. What that backend needs and how to get it without building it.
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