A REST API is not production-ready merely because it returns JSON. The difficult behavior appears at the edges: malformed bodies, slow clients, concurrent requests, deployment s...
The dangerous moment in service integration is not the HTTP request. It is the commit immediately before or after it. If an order is committed but its event is never sent, downs...
An old laptop already contains several features that small servers often lack: a battery-backed power supply, a screen and keyboard for emergency access, and hardware designed t...
A production crawler is not a loop around http.Get. It is a durable work queue attached to an unreliable network: URLs multiply, hosts push back, databases become temporarily un...
A queue worker is trivial until the first inconvenient crash. The happy path fetches a row and invokes a handler. Production adds competing processes, poison messages, uncertain...
