He stared at the screen. Two commands. Two seconds. His laptop fans fell silent, as if even the hardware was relieved.

SqlLocalDB info "ProjectLeo"

And on a quiet Tuesday night, a little embedded database called SQL Server LocalDB became his favorite piece of software in the world.

Leo leaned back. His Mac was cool to the touch. He closed the twenty-three browser tabs about Docker networking and deleted the half-written script for provisioning a remote sandbox.