My Security Scanner Was Grading the Firewall, Not the Site
Sites behind Vercel's bot protection got failing grades for headers they had set correctly. The fix: detect when you reached a wall instead of the site, and grade only what you actually saw.
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The Query Wasn't Slow. The Storage Was.
Keyword search on 170,000 news articles took up to 36 seconds. EXPLAIN ANALYZE pointed at the wrong thing. The fix was a narrow table, and search now answers in 29 ms.