That afternoon, the screen started to slow down.
At first I shrugged it off. Then it got worse. You'd tap a button and the page just sat there. As more staff logged in — as the real crowd arrived — the tool I had built got slower and slower. And then my phone started to ring.
This isn't working. That page is frozen. The screen won't load. It wasn't one call. Dozens of people were telling me the same thing at once. The intranet I had spent a month building, the one I'd launched so proudly, was stalling out in front of everyone.
My mind went blank. The server I'd built it on was fast. I knew it was fast. So why?
Looking back, that was the hardest day of my short life as a builder.
