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Have you ever worked for a company that doesn't have staging or feature flags? It sucks.
by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Have you ever worked for a company that doesn't have staging or feature flags? It sucks.
- codesuki 6y agoWelcome to my world.
- fastball 6y agoStaging is so important to me that I moved our startup from Paddle to Stripe as payment processor because Paddle did not (and I think still does not) offer any sort "dev" mode that I could use to test our payment integrations in dev/stag. Literally their solution was "just make a product that costs $0 and test it against our production service". To me, that was a very red flag.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoThe real kicker for me is when there’s no staging environment and production is kittens-not-cattle, and yet there’s no strong way to wonder how this situation came to be.
- fastball 6y agoWait, doesn't it make sense for there to be no stag in a kittens-not-cattle situation? You lovingly hand-provisioned your infra rather than writing infra as code. This makes it non-trivial to set up a stag environment, so you just don't.