Earlier this year I built a test-quality harness called killcheck and wrote about it here. The short version of what it found: tests written by AI coding agents often pass while catching almost nothing. I have spent the months since on a follow-on, entered into a Kaggle research-paper competiti...
When you send SIGTERM to a Go HTTP server that's handling 50 concurrent requests, all 50 die instantly. No cleanup, no drain, no responses. In production this means failed API calls, half-written database rows, and clients retrying on errors that shouldn't have happened.
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When a municipal transit API drops coordinate fields at 4 AM, your ingestion script shouldn't kill the notification service. We spend weeks building streaming setups for commercial APIs, yet we treat government feeds like static CSVs. Public data powers everything from housing trackers to air q...
World Manufacturer Identifier (WMI) tables change slowly, but they do change: new assignments, manufacturer string updates, and corrections. If you ship a free VIN product, you probably keep a local WMI map so you can sanity-check the first three characters without calling NHTSA on every keystro...
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