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What a fun read! :3 I really like your writing style. Deploying stuff to production is always so nerve-wracking, I related to that very hard. I recently developed a golang alternative to an old erlang-ruby-hodgepodge, and when it worked in production I found myself constantly not believing that nothing went wrong.

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> I was in a bit of a stupor for the rest of that week, because I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kept waiting for someone to emerge from the mist and explain that I had somehow bricked Thunderbird or something. But no, it just worked.

I think a lot of us can recognize this feeling when you have deployed big changes. Everything seems to be working fine, but you just don't trust it.

Ha, weeks and months of thinking, "Please just work" and then it does and it's always a shock.

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