Field notes on shipping: TypeScript, Node, databases, and the occasional design detour.
Reading five files to answer a question about one method. Generating a test file that mirrors the pattern of twenty test files sitting right next to it. Updating docs after a sync. Thousands of tokens gone, almost zero actual thinking. The seat license is not the problem. The tokens are.
NestJS tutorials cover controllers, providers, guards, and pipes well. The next layer up, the operational patterns that keep the app healthy under real production load, gets less attention. Here are ten of those patterns with code short enough to read on a phone.