Technical playbook

Node.js Reliability Blueprint

Bring observability, SLOs, and chaos discipline to AI-assembled Node.js services.

Stack focus: Node.js, OpenTelemetry, AWS Lambda, Datadog

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Key takeaways

  • Introduce structured logging and tracing across services.
  • Define error budgets and escalation runbooks with product leadership.
  • Automate load, chaos, and failover drills to prove resilience.

Readiness checkpoints

  • Latency, saturation, and error SLOs tracked in shared dashboards.
  • Zero-downtime deploys validated with synthetic traffic.
  • Runbooks linked directly to alerts with clear ownership.

Keywords we optimise for

  • Node.js reliability
  • observability blueprint
  • serverless hardening
  • AI generated backend cleanup