I Spent 45 Minutes Setting Up a Backend… Before Writing a Single Line of Logic

Last week, I spun up a new FastAPI service. 45 minutes later… I still hadn’t written a single line of business logic. Not because coding is hard — but because everything around the code is broken . Missing .env keys Docker half-working DB migrations out of sync One internal service silently failing If you’ve built more than one backend, you’ve lived this. We don’t have a coding problem We have a setup problem disguised as engineering . Most of our time isn’t spent writing logic. It’s spent: reco