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Beyond CRUD is about what happens to backend systems after the happy path. 3 posts so far, written by an engineer who has been paged for them.

• 01One backend failure mode per essay, with the code that causes it and the code that fixes it
• 02The checklists and cheat sheets I make (Postgres migrations, retries and idempotency, queues)
• 03Notes on what AI agents are doing to APIs and platforms, from someone running the infrastructure