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FIELD NOTE 01 · AUG 2026

12 things production taught me while building SpotBook.

This is not twelve lessons dressed up as content. It is a record of the engineering problems that mattered when real orders, stock, and people were on the other side of the screen.

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Keep the order safeLocks, delta validation, draft persistence.
Keep the interface honestLoading states, image handling, useful feedback.
Keep the system standingDeployment, connectivity, tenant boundaries, auditability.
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