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Health Checks Aren't a Feature, They're a Requirement (And You're Probably Doing Them Wrong)

A health check told the load balancer that your service was fine. The load balancer kept sending traffic. The service was actually broken. Everything downstream also broke. By the time anyone noticed, you were paging people at 3 AM.

Devesh Korde

Aug 26, 2026

Health Checks Aren't a Feature, They're a Requirement (And You're Probably Doing Them Wrong)

A health check told the load balancer that your service was fine. The load balancer kept sending tra...

Devesh Korde

How Frameworks Hide Timing Bugs Until Production: Why React, Angular, and Vue Make You Blind to Performance

Frameworks abstract away the rendering pipeline. You write code. It works locally. In production, wi...

Devesh Korde

Database Connection Pools Aren't Magic: Why Your App Dies When All Connections Are Exhausted

You added a connection pool. The database queries got faster. Problem solved. Except the pool is a f...

Devesh Korde

Local Development Is a Simulator, Not a Mirror: Why Your App Works at Home But Breaks in Production

You tested it locally. It passed. The code is clean. It's deployed to production and fails within an...

Devesh Korde

Why Design Patterns Fail in Production: The Textbook Lies

Design patterns solve abstract problems in abstract ways. But production code is not abstract. It is...

Devesh Korde

What Do You Actually Owe Yourself Right Now

The salary arrives and the YouTube channel pauses. Again. And the real question underneath it is not...

Devesh Korde