For the first time in months, she closed her laptop at 5:00 PM and carried it home in her bag. The battery was still at 73%.
"I can't keep doing this," she muttered, watching her battery drain from 100% to 60% in fifteen minutes.
She packaged her app as a ClickOnce installer. No prerequisite for SQL Server. No 2GB download. No "run as administrator." LocalDB was just a —a 50MB setup that ran in seconds.
"Where's the memory hog?" she asked.
It was 3:00 AM, and Sarah was losing her mind.
Not crashed. Not errored. It simply went to sleep , releasing all the RAM, closing all the ports, leaving her laptop as quiet as a Chromebook.