What new technology (< 5 years) has significantly increased your speed of development?
Typescript, AI (of course), Vercel, Supabase, Airtable (prototypes, maybe not <5 tho), web3 libraries!
I’m really digging cursor.sh, not explicitly backend but certainly helping me to see the backend better
This will sound pedestrian, but VSCode. Also, another pedestrian one - but ESM (finally getting adopted broadly)...a lot of "subtle jank" dried up on that one, along with much better tooling around module bundling arriving because of it.
Strictly backend stuff: kaniko cache to speed up cloud builds testcontainers Google Cloud Run