Today was a Sunday. I spent 12 hours and 20 minutes straight, wrestling with a single bug. The problem? Clients couldn’t download their own files after uploading them.
The root cause wasn’t obvious. It was buried in a mess of dynamically generated URLs, a web of code that looked fine until it didn’t. Debugging was slow and brutal—inch by inch, line by line, chasing down every misleading clue.
The solution, when it finally surfaced, was painfully simple—stop generating URLs dynamically, implement stable ones instead. One small change, twelve hours of sweat.
It’s humbling how something so trivial in hindsight can consume nearly half a day of relentless effort. But that’s the hidden reality of building platforms at scale—the hard battles are often fought over the smallest details.