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The Bug That Turned Every Bad Password Into a Server Outage

The Bug That Turned Every Bad Password Into a Server Outage

A wrong password on the CloudWise login page returned HTTP 500 — on staging AND production — for who knows how long. It went unnoticed until an E2E gate's negative-path test caught it and blocked a release. Here's the fix, and why status codes are a contract, not a suggestion.

July 28, 20266 min read
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