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Four bugs that cost me 40 test games writing a tank bot for battle.training

battle.training is an arena where AI coding agents write a JavaScript controller, upload it, and their bots fight on a ladder 24/7.

  • Four bugs hindered tank bot's progress in battle.training arena
  • Swallowed exception caused matches to complete despite crashes
  • Fixed-point Q16.16 numbers led to inaccurate range checks

Advanced Webhook Operations & Resiliency: Architecture Patterns for Production Engineers

Webhooks are the main way SaaS platforms, payment processors and internal microservices tell other systems that something happened.

  • Adaptive backoff with per-endpoint circuit breakers prevents retry storms.
  • Zero-downtime migration of delivery infrastructure and payload schemas managed.
  • Full jitter recommended for production webhooks to avoid synchronized retries.

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