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Fernando Castellanos

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Practical notes from a backend developer debugging real-world systems.

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From Smoke Tests to Production Truth: Lessons from Load Testing Five APIs with Locust

What five production APIs taught me when a green smoke test stopped being enough The short version. An API that returns HTTP 200 in a smoke test has told you almost nothing about whether it survives

Jul 27 · 17 min readbackend-debugging.hashnode.dev

The Bug Wasn't in Our Code

BACKEND ENGINEERING · DEBUGGING QA filed the regression at 4:50 on a Friday. The endpoint had worked the day before. The deployment that morning had gone green. Git showed nothing that touched the fai

Jun 30 · 8 min readbackend-debugging.hashnode.dev

How I Use AI Assistants for Debugging Without Trusting Them Blindly

Key takeaways Treat AI output as a hypothesis to verify, never as evidence or a final answer. Ask the AI to map categories of causes — code, data, config, database, infrastructure — instead of "the c

Jun 25 · 10 min readbackend-debugging.hashnode.dev

Fernando Castellanos

About

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Fernando Castellanos's blogs

From Smoke Tests to Production Truth: Lessons from Load Testing Five APIs with Locust

The Bug Wasn't in Our Code

How I Use AI Assistants for Debugging Without Trusting Them Blindly

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Fernando Castellanos

About

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Fernando Castellanos's blogs

From Smoke Tests to Production Truth: Lessons from Load Testing Five APIs with Locust

The Bug Wasn't in Our Code

How I Use AI Assistants for Debugging Without Trusting Them Blindly