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, a junior developer, was under pressure to fix a broken database connection for the company’s dashboard before the Monday morning meeting. In the heat of the moment, Alex hardcoded the dbpassword directly into the application's configuration file instead of using the proper env (environment) variables. Environment variables are used to store data that