The dashboard says p50 is fine. Nobody’s complaining about the median. Then someone splits the data by cache status and finds p99 sitting at 4 seconds, hidden in the aggregate because cached and cold
The support ticket says, “Uploads over 10MB fail.” There’s no stack trace and no error from the app. The gateway rejected the request before it ever reached your code, and changing a setting in your a
The server limit was increased from 10 MB to 100 MB, but the upload still failed with a 413 error. The problem was nginx, which was still limiting request bodies to 1 MB before they reached the app. T
A simple FastAPI endpoint using file: bytes works fine for small demos. But try uploading a 2 GB video, and things can go wrong quickly. If your container only has 512 MB of memory, loading the whole
If you search for a Shadcn UI image upload component, you’ll quickly notice there isn’t one. That’s intentional. You might try running npx shadcn add upload, only to find that no upload component exis
Almost every team runs into this problem at some point. A user uploads a photo, carefully adjusts the crop, and clicks Save. But when their profile picture appears later, it’s cropped differently. Par
Most contract forms don’t lose people at the signature. They lose them one step earlier, at the upload, when someone picks the wrong file, gets no feedback, and quietly gives up. Upload contract form
Monday morning, and your API is pinned at 100% CPU. Nobody uploaded anything huge. There’s no 4K video sitting in the queue, no multi-gigabyte archive. Just 60,000 tiny files, a handful from enthusias
File uploads can fail even when your code is working correctly. Real-world networks aren’t always reliable. A phone can lose signal, hotel Wi-Fi can disconnect during an upload, or a user might close
