Field notes from working on production Meteor apps.
October 26, 2026 · InterstellarBits
On a lot of inherited Meteor apps, the release process is one laptop and one person's memory. How to get from there to a pinned, reproducible build in CI, a container you can rebuild next year, and a rollback that actually works.
Read moreOctober 19, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Meteor 3.5 made change streams the default observer driver, added DDP session resumption, and raised the MongoDB floor to 6+. What that means for a production app already on 3.1 or 3.2 — including the 3.5.1 fix list to check your code against.
Read moreOctober 12, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Schema validation tells you what a document should look like. Data migrations are how it gets there. A practical pattern for backfills in a production Meteor app: idempotent and resumable, batched against the oplog, async-safe after Fibers, and still useful on the way out.
Read moreOctober 5, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Every production Meteor app has an HTTP surface nobody documents: webhooks, partner endpoints, health checks. How to inventory it, what Meteor 3's move to Express changes, how to authenticate it, and why it is the first thing to move in a strangler migration.
Read moreSeptember 28, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Minimongo and method stubs make a Meteor UI feel instant, and nobody documents it because nobody wrote it. What latency compensation actually does, how it breaks in Meteor 3, and what it costs to rebuild on React Query when you migrate off.
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