During August 2025, Victor Goncalves Carvalho enhanced backend reliability for the zanfranceschi/rinha-de-backend-2025 repository by implementing robust API health checks and improving startup sequencing. He introduced a dedicated health check endpoint and updated Docker Compose configurations, ensuring the load balancer only routed traffic to healthy API instances. By correcting the health check port from 9999 to 3333, Victor resolved container health misalignments, enabling safer rolling updates and reducing deployment race conditions. His work leveraged Shell scripting, YAML, and Docker Compose, resulting in more accurate service monitoring and faster recovery during restarts, reflecting a focused approach to DevOps reliability challenges.