Replacing Direct Storage URLs With a Media Proxy at Scale
The first enterprise client to use our automated reporting feature filed an escalation. Every image in their weekly email was a broken red X, every single one. No thumbnails rendered, so the report was effectively unusable. There was no bug. The code did exactly what I'd designed it to do months earlier, which was the problem. I had stored raw third-party storage URLs in our database and passed them straight to the frontend. Image tags, video tags, email templates — all of them pointed at someon

