>> 8. Non-Production Environments Have Diminishing Returns. >You want at least 3, maybe 4. After experiencing a project where delivery was slow as a dog becau

>> 8. Non-Production Environments Have Diminishing Returns. >You want at least 3, maybe 4. After experiencing a project where delivery was slow as a dog because of a lot of queues waiting on multiple rounds of manual QA and environmental differences causing a class of bugs that only showed up in production anyway further delaying other stuff as it was fixed and had to go through these long lead times to get to production, I did some soul searching and tried to understand it better. I know we could tune the current setup a little better and eek out some marginal gains. But after reading Accelerate and comparing our dev practices with a local company that is doing Continuous Delivery as outlined in this blog post I really feel like the grass might actually be significantly greener on the other side.