Backend hardening & testing

Retries, graceful degradation, the smoke suite, and knowing what breaks under load.

What we build

Retries and graceful degradation so a dependency's bad day is not yours, a smoke suite that proves the critical paths on every deploy, and load and failure testing that finds the breaking point before your customers do.

What you get

• A smoke test suite covering the critical paths, running on every deploy
• Retry and fallback behaviour on each external dependency, listed in a one-page note

How the work unfolds

1. Add retries and graceful degradation
2. Build the smoke suite
3. Load-test and failure-test the service

What shapes the price

Before you see a number, our scoping conversation asks:

• Is there a traffic moment you need to be sure it survives — a launch, a campaign, a seasonal peak? Load and failure testing only matters against a stated target.

How an engagement starts

This work builds on Backend API foundations, so scope, boundaries and constraints are agreed before anything is built.

Teams often combine it with:

• Observability & alerting
• Production readiness review
• Security hardening implementation