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Practical help for the app you built with AI, page 3.

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Deployment

What is a rollback plan? The page, the database half, and a drill you have actually run

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Stability

What is chaos testing? Outage drills in staging: simulating an AI or payment provider failure before customers depend on the fallback

16 min read
Stability

What is exponential backoff: retries that wait longer each time, stop at a limit, and never charge a customer twice

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Stability

What is graceful degradation? Keeping the rest of the app usable when one provider is down

15 min read
Deployment

What is Renovate bot, and how to run automated dependency updates with checks that actually run

18 min read
Security

A complete account deletion feature: related records, stored files, third-party copies, and the retention exceptions

19 min read
Security

The admin panel security checklist: restricting admin routes and operations to verified roles

14 min read
Stability

AWS logging and monitoring for a small app: CloudWatch logs, custom metrics, CloudTrail, and the alarms worth the bill

25 min read
Revenue

A billing operations runbook checklist: refunds, complimentary access, disputes and chargebacks

16 min read
Security

Broken access control: enforcing permission on every route, endpoint and server action, and the test that proves it

15 min read
Compliance

Cookie consent requirements for a small SaaS: what to block until consent, and how to test refusal and withdrawal

22 min read
Compliance

A data map GDPR reviewers accept: how to find every place your app keeps personal data, with a template

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Compliance

The data subject request handling checklist: the clock, the identity check, the export and delete paths in your app, and the test that proves them

24 min read
Maintainability

Frontend broke after backend change: typed contracts at every API boundary, and the CI check that catches the next one

15 min read
Compliance

A GDPR breach in a small SaaS: what a personal data breach makes you report, to whom, and within how long

20 min read
Stability

How long to keep application logs: a retention window you can show, and what it costs to keep more

19 min read
Stability

How to alert on error rate spikes, latency, connection pressure, queue backlog and spend

16 min read
Stability

How to build an ops dashboard: uptime, errors, latency, signups and revenue in a single view

16 min read