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Staging Fidelity

The Adventures of O & Cyrus — O discovers why their staging environment isn't quite as production-like as everyone thought.

O, a small round purple robot with one visor eye, stands next to Cyrus, a raccoon in a charcoal hoodie holding coffee, both looking at two server racks. The staging rack is a tiny single box with a hand-drawn smiley face. The production rack is massive, multi-tiered, with cables everywhere and warning lights.

The Adventures of O & Cyrus — Staging had 10 users, 3 tables, and SQLite. Production has 40,000 concurrent connections and a distributed database cluster that costs more per hour than Cyrus's coffee budget. Technically they both run the app.

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