Specs replace code? Not until specs stop lying
2026.184The spec says what should happen. Code says what does. Only one of them actually runs.
production
all tags →The spec says what should happen. Code says what does. Only one of them actually runs.
Connection pool sizes, retry counts, timeouts, commented-out endpoints -- and the archaeology of values that survived production.
Upstart, clustering, zero-downtime deploys, heartbeat monitoring, and an embedded REPL -- what it takes to keep Node.js running in production in 2013.