The problem? Their flagship project— QuantumEdge , a cloud-based platform that allowed users to interact with quantum algorithms through a browser—was days away from its public demo. Yet the backend, built on a legacy system of .shtml files (Server-Side Includes—SSI), was a labyrinth of half-updated code, riddled with inconsistent includes and fragile server variables. A single misconfiguration could crash the demo at the worst possible moment.