A traffic spike from Hacker News or Reddit feels great until your server starts returning 500s to everyone. Here is what actually goes wrong when you have no rate limiting, and how to add the basics before you need them.
Logging frameworks that serialise entire request objects, error payloads, or user records are the most common cause of PII leaking to log aggregators. This article shows how it happens and how structured logging with field allowlists stops it.
A health check endpoint is the simplest ops practice most APIs skip. This article explains what one should return, how to structure it, and why load balancers and on-call engineers both depend on it.
Naive retry loops that fire immediately on failure amplify load on struggling services and turn recoverable blips into cascading outages. This article covers exponential backoff, jitter, and the retry budgets that keep retries safe.
A practical comparison of Seaworthy and Snyk for solo developers and small teams who want security and ops feedback without enterprise overhead.
A practical comparison of free and paid security scanning tools for small dev teams, covering what you actually get for your money and where the gaps are.
An attacker who can open a PR can silently swap a package hash in package-lock.json and have it merged by a reviewer who never looks at lockfiles. This article explains the attack, real-world cases, and the controls that prevent it.
A practical guide to the security tools solo developers actually use in 2026, covering secrets scanning, dependency auditing, static analysis, and repo health checks, with honest takes on what's worth your time.
Most LLM-generated Dockerfiles run as root, pull mutable tags, and bake secrets into layers. This article covers the six most damaging mistakes and the one-line fixes for each.