AfterCode Recipes
Focused production patterns for the problems that show up after the prototype works.
Python
How to add health checks to FastAPI
Expose lightweight liveness and readiness endpoints for production orchestration.
Read recipe →APIsHow to implement API request timeouts
Prevent external dependencies from hanging your application indefinitely.
Read recipe →ReliabilityHow to handle retries safely
Use bounded exponential backoff and avoid retry storms.
Read recipe →SecurityHow to manage secrets in production
Keep credentials out of source code and rotate them safely.
Read recipe →ObservabilityHow to create structured application logs
Emit machine-readable logs with context and correlation identifiers.
Read recipe →SecurityHow to implement API rate limiting
Protect public endpoints and downstream systems from abuse and spikes.
Read recipe →AI AgentsHow to secure an AI agent’s tool permissions
Apply least privilege and explicit approval boundaries to agent actions.
Read recipe →RAGHow to evaluate a RAG system
Measure retrieval quality, grounding, answer quality and failure cases.
Read recipe →ObservabilityHow to monitor AI application latency
Track model, retrieval and tool-call latency separately.
Read recipe →DevOpsHow to create a production Dockerfile
Build small, reproducible and safer application containers.
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