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API Reliability Starter

A production-minded backend template with authentication, tracing, queues, and deployment defaults.

BackendObservabilityOpen Source
STATUS
maintained
YEAR
2026
ROLE
Author & Maintainer
STACK
NestJS · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker

SYSTEM / ARCHITECTURE

How it fits together

  1. 01HTTP application
  2. 02Auth boundary
  3. 03Job workers
  4. 04Persistence adapters
  5. 05Telemetry stack
Setup time
< 10m
Included checks
24
Example flows
8
01

Motivation

Small services often repeat the same reliability work after feature development has already started.

  • Health and readiness
  • Consistent error contracts
  • Background job conventions
02

Defaults

The template provides opinionated boundaries while keeping adapters replaceable. Every example includes tests and operational signals.

  • Request IDs and traces
  • Migration-safe persistence
  • Local Docker environment
03

Impact

New service experiments begin with dependable operational behavior instead of adding it only after the first incident.

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