.env.local.production Today

Now, at 2:47 AM, the on-call rotation had finally reached him. Three missed calls. Seventeen Slack messages. And one frantic text from the product owner: "Users can’t buy anything. We’re losing $12k a minute."

so it would never be seen by the shared repository. It was a safe haven for secrets and overrides that belonged only on Alex's machine. .env.local.production

If you see .env.local.production on a cloud server (AWS EC2, Heroku, Vercel), you have made a deployment error. These files belong on local workstations only. Now, at 2:47 AM, the on-call rotation had