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by sirtaj 3971 days ago
What sort of constraints do you have that your dev environment can't be a VM running the same software as production?
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people get accustomed to do things a certain way, then we upgrade to a newer postgres or a newer whatever everything breaks down and we have to track down dozens of little papercuts.

if anyone has ever tried to upgrade a ruby app to a newer ubuntu release, he should know that building no variance in the deployment environment is a recipe to never upgrade it. (no I'm not using rails currently, I have to build a thing that needs to live more than two years)