The Joke:

At the end of every Passover seder, there's a hopeful line:
“Next year in Jerusalem.”
It’s about looking forward to freedom, fulfillment, and finally arriving where you want to be.

But for developers? That destination isn’t always a holy city—it’s a production environment that doesn’t crash during deployment.

So this card gives the classic phrase a techy twist:
“This year in staging, next year in production!”
Because let’s be real, we’ve all had projects stuck in staging so long they should start paying rent. You’re testing, QA-ing, optimizing... but the release never comes. You’re wandering the dev desert, waiting for someone—anyone—to click “Deploy.”

And in the image? A laptop at the splitting of the sea, pyramids in the distance—it’s the perfect metaphor for a dev stuck between legacy systems (Egypt) and a glorious, mythical land where code actually ships (production). Moses might have had to part the Red Sea, but you? You’re just trying to get sign-off from Product.

Why It’s Funny:

• For developers: It nails the emotional limbo of having code that’s ready—but not quite ready enough to ship. We've all lived the "next year in production" pipeline dream.

• For non-devs: Even without knowing the technical jargon, it's funny because it captures the universal experience of something being so close… and yet somehow still not done.

• As a parody: It’s a playful remix of a sacred, solemn phrase—turned into a joke about the chaos of modern software development. Bonus points for visualizing Moses in CI/CD flow.