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Debugging Nightmare: Legacy Dependency Caused Inconsistent Behavior
A team spent hours debugging inconsistent behavior across identical VMs, only to find the culprit was an old version of RestSharp using SimpleJson serializer. The issue wasn't infrastructure or business logic but a hidden dependency that caused serialization quirks. Upgrading to RestSharp 107, which uses System.Text.Json, resolved the problem.
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This story highlights how outdated dependencies can silently break applications, a lesson many teams learn the hard way.
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