#postmortem

9 posts tagged #postmortem.

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Lessons

The wrong key

We matched each sale to its row in the sheet instead of the camera sold, so duplicates slipped through

We matched sales by their row in the spreadsheet instead of the camera sold, so every re-pasted block came in as a new sale.

#data-quality#deduplication#reconciliation#sqlite

Nicolás Biondi· 4 min readRead the post

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Lessons

The test mode didn't test

We sent test mode on every order, but the invoicing API never checked: the account decides that

Nicolás Biondi· 3 minRead the post

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Lessons

Midnight doesn't count

Our counter allowed 96 posts in 24 rolling hours and X blocked the bot at post 64

Nicolás Biondi· 4 minRead the post

A brass doorbell on a dark wall with its cut cable hanging, the copper ends barely shining.

Infrastructure

The doorbell won't ding

We changed a key and the alerts chat went quiet without a single error. Now we count the alerts that arrive

Nicolás Biondi· 3 minRead the post

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Tokens & Costs

Free with a meter

A cache spent 2,400 writes a day on a plan that allowed 1,000

Nicolás Biondi· 4 minRead the post

A dim doorway with a blank hanger on the handle and three glowing duplicates fading beside it.

AI Agents

One sign per agent

Two agents shared one 'do not disturb' and clashed; now each hangs its own sign, with an expiry

Nicolás Biondi· 3 minRead the post

A wall opened up in the middle with two bundles of glowing cables, one cyan and one amber, shining at different intensities.

AI Agents

Nothing was broken

An agent touched four files in production over a fault that was in Shopify's index

Nicolás Biondi· 3 minRead the post

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Ecommerce

The API played dumb

Three fields were missing and the API still said 'all good': it filled them in with whatever came to mind

Nicolás Biondi· 3 minRead the post

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Infrastructure

Every click crashed it

We moved a 130 MB file to a real database, and each click dropped from 5 seconds to 0.6 ms

Nicolás Biondi· 4 minRead the post