11 posts tagged with "v3"

In many backend teams, outbound HTTP calls are still treated like helper code. They live in random utility functions, each call has slightly different timeout behavior, and when incidents happen no one is fully sure which upstream policy is actually active.

That works while a service has two dependencies. It starts to hurt when a service has ten. Timeout drift, inconsistent retry behavior, missing correlation headers, and ad-hoc error mapping become real operational problems. When your on-call engineer cannot tell which upstream policy is in effect during an incident, the outbound client is the root cause even when the upstream itself is fine.

The v3 client package addresses this by treating outbound HTTP as a first-class concern. You define client behavior once, override it where needed, and keep request policy visible in one place.

Most SPA delivery issues are not frontend bugs. They are server routing mismatches.

The homepage works, client-side navigation works, and then someone refreshes a deep link in production and gets a server-side 404. It happens all the time because backend and frontend route ownership was never made explicit.

Fiber v3 makes this easy to solve once you set the pattern correctly.

Static delivery is one of those topics that seems boring until it breaks.

A frontend deploy goes out, cache headers are wrong, the browser serves stale files, and suddenly support channels fill with "I still see the old UI" messages. Or worse: your container image uses a different working directory than local dev, and assets that worked locally return 404 in production.

Fiber v3 gives you a very capable static middleware surface. The trick is not only to use it, but to use it with clear policy.