5 Feb 2025 · 7 min read

Building Reliable Backends for AI Automations

Lessons learned while building AI-powered automation backends with Node.js, Python, and modern tooling.

AI automations are only as good as the backend that orchestrates them. In this article I go over patterns that keep workflows reliable and debuggable.

From queueing and retries to observability and guardrails, I share the practices that make AI systems production-ready.