Most MERN Tutorials Ignore This, Until Production Breaks

Media storage isn’t a feature, it’s infrastructure. Here’s how one decision transformed my MERN music app from fragile to scalable. When you build your first full-stack product, you think the hard part is logic. Authentication. Playlists. Search algorithms. UI polish. But no one tells you about the invisible monster waiting in production: Media storage. When I built my MERN music streaming platform, MusicHub, I was proud. It had an admin panel to upload songs, a clean UI, playlist creation, search by artist and movie, everything felt solid. Until I deployed it. And the illusion cracked. The Day It Slowed Down I uploaded a handful of songs. Just ten. That’s all it took. The server felt heavier. Streaming wasn’t as smooth. Deployment limits started whispering warnings. Storage felt fragile. That’s when I realized something most beginner tutorials never mention: Building features makes you feel like a developer. Handling infrastructure makes you become one. The Moment I Stopped Thinking L