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by jeletonskelly 3810 days ago
> So, get a call at 2 AM on the weekend and design and implement a new feature, release to production to debug and test.

Oh no... just no. Production is not where debugging and testing should ever happen, obviously. If that's what your company expects I'm not surprised QA was let go when your customers are doing it for you. This makes me sad.
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poooogles 3810 days ago
>Oh no... just no. Production is not where debugging and testing should ever happen.

Debugging sure. Testing in production however is incredibly valuable.

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RankingMember 3810 days ago
Are you kidding? Testing in a copy of production (integration, staging), sure. You should never be testing anything in production if you value your clients and reputation (and sanity).
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toomuchtodo 3810 days ago
That's what a canary is for, where you only send it a percentage of traffic.

I guarantee you that you'll never be able to accurately reproduce production traffic in staging or development.

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