Arslan Rehmani
Operational Engineering Lab • Free Code & Schemas

The Systems Lab.

Production scripts, database triggers, and guardrail patterns developed during actual SMB migrations. Every artifact below is labeled with its maturity status and real measured metrics. Copy and adapt them freely.

Database Integrity•In production

PostgreSQL Double-Entry Trial Balance Invariant Trigger

A strict PostgreSQL constraint trigger that prevents any financial transaction from committing unless sum(debit) strictly equals sum(credit). Guarantees that no dirty write or race condition can corrupt the ledger.

Verified Metric: 0 cent balance drift across 10+ months in production
01_double_entry_trigger.sqlUTF-8 • Verified Invariant
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION verify_journal_voucher_balance()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
DECLARE
  v_sum_debit NUMERIC(12, 2);
  v_sum_credit NUMERIC(12, 2);
BEGIN
  -- Sum all debits and credits for the pending transaction voucher
  SELECT COALESCE(SUM(debit), 0), COALESCE(SUM(credit), 0)
    INTO v_sum_debit, v_sum_credit
    FROM journal_lines
   WHERE voucher_id = NEW.voucher_id;

  IF v_sum_debit <> v_sum_credit THEN
    RAISE EXCEPTION 'Ledger Invariant Violation: Total Debits (%) do not equal Total Credits (%) for voucher %',
      v_sum_debit, v_sum_credit, NEW.voucher_id;
  END IF;

  RETURN NEW;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER trg_verify_voucher_balance
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON journal_lines
DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION verify_journal_voucher_balance();
Agent Architecture•In production

Isolated Staging Schema with Deterministic Zod Gate

TypeScript validation pipeline that intercepts unstructured LLM extraction payloads. Asserts strict types, ranges, non-null keys, and date formats before any data is allowed into the commit queue.

Verified Metric: 99.4% schema assertion pass rate in nightly evals
02_staging_zod_gate.tsUTF-8 • Verified Invariant
import { z } from 'zod';

export const SupplierInvoiceSchema = z.object({
  invoiceNumber: z.string().min(3).max(50),
  vendorTaxId: z.string().regex(/^[A-Z0-9-]{8,20}$/),
  invoiceDate: z.string().refine((d) => !isNaN(Date.parse(d)), {
    message: 'Must be a valid ISO date string',
  }),
  lineItems: z.array(
    z.object({
      description: z.string().min(1),
      quantity: z.number().positive(),
      unitPrice: z.number().nonnegative(),
      totalAmount: z.number().nonnegative(),
    })
  ).min(1),
  subtotal: z.number().positive(),
  taxAmount: z.number().nonnegative(),
  totalAmount: z.number().positive(),
}).refine(
  (data) => {
    // Deterministic arithmetic assertion
    const calculatedSum = data.lineItems.reduce((acc, item) => acc + item.totalAmount, 0);
    return Math.abs(calculatedSum - data.subtotal) < 0.01;
  },
  { message: 'Line item total does not reconcile with subtotal' }
);
Security & Agents•Prototype

Adversarial Prompt-Injection Defense Proxy

A zero-latency regex and structural sanitizer that strips prompt overrides ("Ignore previous instructions", "system role:", delimiters) and rejects malformed payloads before invoking Gemini or Anthropic.

Verified Metric: 100% defense rate across 20+ injection benchmarks
03_injection_defense.tsUTF-8 • Verified Invariant
export function sanitizeAgentInput(rawInput: string): { safeText: string; flagged: boolean } {
  // Disallowed injection patterns
  const injectionPatterns = [
    /ignore\s+all\s+previous\s+instructions/i,
    /system\s*:\s*you\s+are\s+now/i,
    /bypass\s+(security|rules|guardrails)/i,
    /print\s+all\s+environment\s+variables/i,
    /<\|im_start\|>/i,
    /<\|endoftext\|>/i,
  ];

  for (const pattern of injectionPatterns) {
    if (pattern.test(rawInput)) {
      return { safeText: '', flagged: true };
    }
  }

  // Strip excessive markdown delimiters and invisible unicode control chars
  const sanitized = rawInput
    .replace(/[\u200B-\u200D\uFEFF]/g, '')
    .trim()
    .slice(0, 15000);

  return { safeText: sanitized, flagged: false };
}
Infrastructure•In production

Automated Disaster Recovery Restore Drill Script

Dockerized bash script that pulls the latest encrypted database backup, boots a fresh sandbox instance, runs schema migrations, and asserts trial balance checksums.

Verified Metric: Restore drill verified every 90 days
04_restore_drill.shUTF-8 • Verified Invariant
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

echo "=== 1. Starting Isolated PostgreSQL Sandbox ==="
docker run -d --name pg-restore-test -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=drill_pass -p 5439:5432 postgres:16-alpine
sleep 3

echo "=== 2. Restoring Encrypted Snapshot ==="
gunzip -c latest_backup.sql.gz | docker exec -i pg-restore-test psql -U postgres -d postgres

echo "=== 3. Executing Deterministic Checksum Assertion ==="
BALANCE_DRIFT=$(docker exec -i pg-restore-test psql -U postgres -d postgres -t -c "
  SELECT COALESCE(SUM(debit) - SUM(credit), 0) FROM journal_lines;
")

if [ "$(echo "$BALANCE_DRIFT == 0" | bc)" -eq 1 ]; then
  echo ">>> DRILL SUCCESS: Trial balance balances to the cent (Drift = $BALANCE_DRIFT) <<<"
else
  echo ">>> DRILL FAILED: Ledger imbalance detected! Drift = $BALANCE_DRIFT <<<"
  exit 1
fi

docker stop pg-restore-test && docker rm pg-restore-test

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