Four Layers of Wrong: Shipping SSR on Vercel
It took four deploys to server-render one page. Three of the four failures returned 200 OK — a successful status is not evidence of a working page.
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It took four deploys to server-render one page. Three of the four failures returned 200 OK — a successful status is not evidence of a working page.
engineeringTwo tests, both passing, both well named, both asserting the wrong behaviour. Neither was found by reading them — and coverage numbers cannot see either.
57.8% of users who chose a deploy target never finished. There were no error reports — the error dashboard was clean because of the bug, not despite it.