The progress bar crawled. 10%... 40%... 100%.
show system resources
By 2:27 AM, all systems were green. He sent a follow-up Slack message: “Upgrade complete. Network restored. Root cause: memory leak in old firmware. Mitigated.”
He ran the same diagnostic as before:
The screen went black. Arjun’s heart rate doubled. The fans on the router spun down to silence.