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| Domain | Free Tool | Why Practitioners Choose It | |--------|-----------|-------------------------------| | Editor | VS Code Codium (or Neovim) | Telemetry-free, extensible | | Version control | Git + GitLab / GitHub | Decentralized, ubiquitous | | CI/CD | GitHub Actions (free for public repos) | Declarative pipelines | | Debugging | gdb , lldb , pdb (Python) | No visual fluff, scriptable | | Profiling | perf , py-spy , valgrind | Identifies real bottlenecks | | Testing | pytest , JUnit , go test | Built into most ecosystems | | Containerization | Docker + Podman (no Docker Desktop license fees) | Reproducible environments | | Infrastructure | Terraform OSS + LocalStack | Practice cloud locally | | Monitoring | Prometheus + Grafana (self-hosted) | Production-observability skills |

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