The Thrill of Pushing to Prod
Friday, August 1, 2025 | Authored by Jake Bodea
I pushed to prod today
Here's the story
> the excitement and thrill of watching the PR merge...
> the stress watching the CI/CD pipeline run...
> the confusion not seeing the frontend change because the pipeline actually kind of sucks...
> the relief when it finally changes on the 40th refresh...
> the pounding in the chest watching the logs stream in...
> the terror seeing the missing environment variables in prod...
> the shame as the type errors flood the logs...
> the laughter as we revert to the previous working pipeline...
...
there's no feeling like it :)