Pushed my first change to production today and refreshed the metrics dashboard for an hour straight
It was a tiny change. One line, honestly. But watching it actually go out to real users did something to my brain, I sat there refreshing error rates like I was waiting on exam results.
Nothing broke. My team lead just said 'welcome to prod' and moved on. I wanted to mark it somewhere though, because six months ago I didn't think I'd get here. If you remember your first deploy, what was it?