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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
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
Stop Putting Secrets in process.env: Encrypt Env Vars with AWS KMS
After a CVSS 10.0 RCE (CVE-2025-66478), we stopped trusting process.env. Here’s what I built instead
Feb 21, 202610 min read10
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
Your Node.js AWS SDK v3 App Will Crash in Production Without This maxSockets Fix
Everything was fine until it wasn’t. Our Node.js app, powered by AWS SDK v3, started freezing during peak traffic. Requests to S3 and DynamoDB hung indefinitely, ECS tasks began restarting, and the logs were a blur of ETIMEDOUT and Socket hang up err...
Nov 7, 20255 min read151
Secrets Sprawl in Node.js Projects: Detection, Prevention & Secure Deployment (2025)
A practical guide to spotting credential exposure, stopping leaks before they happen, and locking down secrets across different environments.
Aug 5, 20256 min read16