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by podoman 2151 days ago
Hello! I'm slightly confused here, but I do agree with your statements.

Are you implying that Reploy should also support production Deployments? If that's the case, then yes! We're also thinking in that vain more long term. I personally feel like existing solutions have their downsides, and there's a lot of room for innovation in this space :).

Regarding the tradeoff, I'm mostly referring to existing large companies that have lengthy deployment pipelines. For them, Reploy is a good solution to "preview" changes before they go into production.

> It's just hard to justify the validity of a preview env if the deployment is different to that of prod

For the "preview" use case, it often makes sense. i.e. I just wanna make sure that a button works or something. But I do agree that the production/integration-testing similarity is missing here. This is where the Reploy for production idea is strengthened.

Last point: For really big companies, there's no way that their prod infrastructure would fit into a Preview environment. This is where Reploy (only staging) proves itself being a valid product on its own.

Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled, but really appreciate the interest/questions.