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I know it's not cool these days, but I strongly prefer (and advise) fully-managed cloud services like Heroku. I can fix my database size and scale/resources (dy

• qayxc 6y ago
  Or just test on a good old VM, which can be had for just a few cents per hour and doesn't even allow for storage or network traffic going out of hand. The first mistake is to deploy tests on completely opaque hyper-scalers. Pretty much any software infrastructure - from (SQL/No-SQL/In-Memory/etc.-) databases to entire web-frameworks can be found as ready-to-go VM images and containers these days. Sure, it's a bit more work to find and setup, but in the end you gain an understanding what system is actually doing, how it might behave and the ability to deploy into any environment - from local workstations to bare metal to (a fleet of) VMs to high-level hyper-scaler services.