Deployment

I’ve seen a lot of teams blame Heroku when their frontend suddenly starts throwing CORS errors after deployment. Usually, Heroku is not the problem. Heroku just makes bad CORS assumptions painfully visible. This case study comes from a very common setup: React frontend on one Heroku app or a custom domain Node/Express API on another Heroku app Everything works locally Production blows up with No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present The painful part is that the app often looks fine in Postman, curl, or server-to-server tests. Then the browser blocks it anyway. ...

CORS bugs on Scaleway usually aren’t really “Scaleway bugs.” They’re config mismatches between your browser app, your API, your object storage, and whatever proxy sits in front. I’ve seen teams burn hours blaming the platform when the actual problem was one missing header or a wildcard used in the wrong place. If you deploy frontends, APIs, or static assets on Scaleway, these are the mistakes that show up over and over. ...