track: when it breaks

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One script, 10,000 fake signups overnight: the guardrail most vibe-coded apps ship without

A rate limit caps how many requests someone can fire in a window, so bots, bugs and abuse can't swamp your app or your bill. Why every public endpoint needs one. Tap to watch it hold.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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It worked with ten users. Then a hundred showed up at once.

What happens to a vibe-coded app when it suddenly gets popular, the two ways to handle it, and why "works for ten" isn't "works for ten thousand". Tap to add users.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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Don't make the user wait for the slow part — hand it to a queue

Why a vibe-coded app should push slow work to a background job instead of freezing the user, and how queues keep an app responsive when traffic spikes. Tap to load it up.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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You fixed the typo. Visitors still see the old version. Here's why.

A cache keeps a ready-made copy so pages load instantly — most of the web's speed, and the classic bug where old data won't go away. What its lifetime (TTL) controls.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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Your app is fast for you and slow for everyone else — the reason is geography

Latency is the wait between a request and its answer, and distance is the biggest cause. Why far-away users feel the lag, and the one thing that fixes most of it. Tap the ladder.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

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Your app broke and you have no idea why. It left you a note.

When a vibe-coded app suddenly fails, the error log is the first place to look. How to read one, and why "it just broke" almost never means what it says.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min