Without HEALTHCHECK in Docker or readiness probes in Kubernetes, the orchestrator has no way to know your container is actually serving traffic. This article shows how a ten-line addition prevents silent failures from affecting users.
Side projects are prime targets for abuse when they have no rate limiting. This article walks through the real-world impact, what attackers actually do, and how to add basic protection without a weekend of work.
dangerouslySetInnerHTML, unescaped URL parameters, and raw HTML from rich-text editors are the XSS vectors that LLMs routinely introduce. This article explains each pattern and the React-idiomatic alternatives.
Most solo founders ship with incomplete error handling, no alerting, and hardcoded secrets they forgot about. This production readiness checklist covers the basics you actually need before going live.
Committed .env files and developer copies with production credentials are a rite of passage in vibe-coded projects. This article walks through the 12-factor config methodology and the low-effort tooling that replaces ad-hoc env files.
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.