It's All Fun And Games Until You Put It On The Network

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It's All Fun And Games Until You Put It On The Network

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The sweet, innocent bliss of coding in your little development bubble vs the existential horror of deploying to production. Sure, your app works flawlessly on localhost—congratulations on conquering the most controlled environment known to mankind! But the moment you push that code to production, suddenly you're dealing with network latency, load balancers, mysterious firewall rules, and that one legacy server nobody remembers configuring. Your beautiful code that ran perfectly on your machine is now being brutally massacred by the chaos of the real world. The transformation from happy developer to hollow-eyed networking ghoul is inevitable. Welcome to the networking nightmare—where "it works on my machine" becomes your epitaph.

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