The Cold Boot Audit: Six Anti-Patterns a Warm Free Tier Hides
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Your app is not portable. It is warm. A free box keeps state you never declared. Caches, temp files, and hand-typed env vars all survive. Then you migrate, and boot fails at 3 a.m. So I stopped asking "does it run?" I ask a harder question now. Does it boot from nothing? Here is the audit I use, si…
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The Cold Boot Audit: Six Anti-Patterns a Warm Free Tier Hides