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ShipReady is written by a small team of engineers who've shipped (and broken) production systems at startups and scale-ups. We've been the person paged at 3am, the person who forgot the backup, and the person who shipped the config that took down the database.

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The blog distills what we've learned into practical, no-hype guides. Every article is grounded in real incidents, real code, and real trade-offs — not theoretical best practices that only work in conference talks.

We built the ShipReady checklist generator because we needed it ourselves. The blog exists because the checklist items deserve more than a checkbox — each one has a story, a failure mode, and a fix worth explaining.

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12 posts

The highest-ROI observability tool for a small team. One integration, and every uncaught exception comes with a stack trace, context, and breadcrumbs.

Feb 27, 2025Read

Ten lines of code that stop 90% of automated abuse — credential stuffing, brute force, scraping, API abuse. Here's how to actually do it.

Feb 23, 2025Read

They're not the same attack, and they don't have the same defense. Here's the difference — and the interview-ready way to explain it.

Feb 19, 2025Read

The day you launch a real service, you become an SRE. Here's the pragmatic version: one SLO, an error budget, a paging channel, and a runbook.

Feb 15, 2025Read

Both deploy without downtime. Both have trade-offs. Picking the wrong one for your situation is worse than picking none at all. Here's how to choose.

Feb 11, 2025Read

GDPR and CCPA sound like lawyer problems. They're developer problems. Here's the 8-item pre-launch checklist for what to actually build.

Feb 7, 2025Read

When your API calls a flaky third party, retries alone make things worse. Here's how circuit breakers, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys work together.

Feb 3, 2025Read

Everyone has backups. Almost no one has tested restoring from them. Here's why an untested backup is a prayer, and how to actually test restores.

Jan 30, 2025Read

JSON Web Tokens are everywhere — and so are the mistakes people make with them. A practical guide to using JWTs safely in production.

Jan 26, 2025Read

CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options and the rest. A plain-English reference for every HTTP security header your web app should set before launch.

Jan 22, 2025Read

Before you ship your SaaS to real users, run through these 12 categories. The 80/20 of what actually matters — and what you can safely skip on day one.

Jan 18, 2025Read

A 42 KB file that expands to 4.5 petabytes. Here's how zip-bomb denial-of-service attacks work, the real numbers behind the famous 42.zip, and how to defend against them.

Jan 12, 2025Read

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