My RabbitMQ library looked production-ready. It couldn't survive a single reconnect.

Short summary

A developer audited a two-year-old RabbitMQ client library and discovered its core reconnection feature had never worked—no tests existed. Bugs included a channel pool never recreated after reconnect, a rate limiter that crashed on its own API, and a library that called process.exit() on the host application. The rebuild prioritized integration tests against a real RabbitMQ instance, proving reconnection actually restores channels and consumers.

• •RabbitMQ library's reconnection never worked—zero tests in the repo
• •Bugs included dead channel recovery, crashing rate limiter, and process-killing signal handlers
• •Rebuild focused on integration tests against real RabbitMQ to make reliability claims falsifiable

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