A lot of backend development is not really product development. You spend an afternoon adding graceful shutdown handling. Another day goes into response formatting, request validation, environment configuration, security headers, idempotency, authentication helpers, and error handling.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/codewithnuh/stop-rebuilding-backend-plumbing-treat-it-as-code-you-own-17bj)

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