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Your free-tier AI image generation endpoint is being used to generate 50,000 images per day by one account. Your "send email" endpoint is being used as a spam relay. Your "convert PDF" API is a free conversion service for strangers. Public endpoints need abuse controls.

Product wants features. Engineering wants to fix the architecture. Neither fully understands the other's constraints. The result is either all-features-no-quality or all-refactoring-no-shipping. The fix requires building a shared language around trade-offs, not just better processes.

You have rate limiting. 100 requests per minute per IP. The attacker uses 100 IPs. Your rate limit is bypassed. Effective rate limiting requires multiple dimensions — IP, user account, device fingerprint, and behavioral signals — not just one.

You've been running backups for 18 months. The disk dies. You go to restore. The backup files are empty. Or corrupted. Or the backup job failed silently on month 4 and you've been running without a backup ever since. Untested backups are not backups.

Your API logs show 10,000 requests per minute. Your analytics show 50 active users. The other 9,950 RPM is bots — scrapers, credential stuffers, inventory hoarders, and price monitors. They're paying your cloud bill while your real users experience slowness.