MirahLabs Engineering Blog

Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.

Active Filters: Tag: backend Clear All
Software Architecture May 22, 2026

Designing RESTful APIs: Best Practices for Consistency and Usability

A poorly designed API is a liability—developers avoid it, bugs multiply, and breaking changes cause outages. This guide covers REST naming conventions, versioning, error formats, and documentation with OpenAPI.

⏱️ 20 min read Read Article
Software Architecture May 13, 2026

WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Long Polling: Real-Time Web Comparison

Real-time features require different transport mechanisms depending on communication pattern, browser support requirements, and scale. Compare WebSockets, SSE, and long polling with concrete Flask examples.

⏱️ 21 min read Read Article
Software Architecture April 09, 2026

Designing Notification Systems at Scale: Push, Email, SMS, and In-App

Notification systems are deceptively complex at scale. Learn how to design a unified notification engine that handles push, email, SMS, and in-app notifications with preference management, rate limiting, and retry logic.

⏱️ 22 min read Read Article