How I Smashed a Bug in a Shared Authentication Library

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This happened a while ago at one of the corporations where I worked.

I was working on a web application as a full-stack developer, so I was responsible for both the frontend and the backend.

Because the corporation was huge, there were several libraries and services shared across multiple teams and maintained by dedicated developers. It was basically open source inside a corporation. 😄

And of course, we used some of those libraries and services, because why reinvent the wheel, right?

How I Smashed a Bug in a Shared Authentication Library

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