In March 2026, Ahmad Hadi developed SQS Publish Metrics Monitoring for the numaproj/numaflow repository, focusing on enhancing observability of Amazon SQS publish operations. He implemented backend instrumentation in Rust to capture detailed metrics, including counts of successful and failed publishes as well as publish latency. This approach provided operational teams with actionable insights, enabling faster incident response and data-driven optimization of SQS workflows. By leveraging AWS SQS and metrics instrumentation, Ahmad’s work improved visibility into message publishing performance. The feature was delivered with proper code signing and authorship, reflecting a focused, well-scoped contribution over the course of one month.