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Why Does Your Node.js Memory Usage Never Seem to Go Back Down?

Restarting your container is just a band-aid for the hidden closures and global caches slowly strangling your server’s heap.

If you're still using throw/catch for business logic, you're building a runtime house of cards that TypeScript can't help you fix.

Move beyond example-based testing and discover how to generate thousands of scenarios to find the edge cases you didn't know existed.

Tracking down a non-deterministic bug taught me that 'eventual consistency' is more than just a buzzword.

Stop chasing millisecond execution times at the edge until you solve the 'regional gravity' problem that's throttling your data-heavy requests.

Stop treating your public API like a draft; once the first developer integrates, your code is effectively written in stone.

We've spent years optimizing APIs when we should have been moving the data closer to the user's fingertips.

Protect your database from the 'double-tap' by implementing idempotency keys that make retrying requests boringly safe.

Stop freezing your users' screens—here is how I finally learned to move heavy logic to the background and keep the interface alive.

How much team velocity are you losing to massive code reviews that sit stale for days while bugs hide in plain sight?