Retries Are Not a Fix. They Are a Liability.
Most retry mechanisms in background jobs are unsafe by default. This is a quick way to find out if yours is one of them.
Apr 18, 20264 min read6
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Your Background Jobs Are Not Failing. They Are Lying.
You won’t see errors. You won’t get alerts. But your system is already losing data.
Apr 16, 20263 min read46
Scaling the Boring Stuff: Sending 10 Million Notifications with a Simple Node.js Job Worker
Queues, backpressure, idempotency, and rate limits explained the way production systems actually behave
Feb 4, 20265 min read62
API Observability: Logs, Traces, Metrics with OpenTelemetry
Modern APIs demand more than logs. Here’s how to instrument observability the right way with OpenTelemetry.
Jul 15, 20253 min read48