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Longer pieces about the things that bite in production — the ones worth writing down properly rather than leaving in a commit message.

May 20269 MIN READ

Building Resilient HTTP Clients: A Deep Dive into Retry Logic

Most distributed-system incidents aren't caused by hard failures. They're caused by transient ones handled badly.

429 · 503 · backoff · jitter · idempotency · Tenacity

May 20267 MIN READ

How Django's get_or_create Quietly Solves Race Conditions You Thought Were Your Problem

When concurrent requests race to insert the same record, most teams reach for retry logic. Django's get_or_create handles it in one line.

IntegrityError · savepoint · unique index · upsert · PostgreSQL