The goal of having your dev environment match your prod. env. is not the right approach in my opinion. Indeed. It's not just the right approach, it's the only

The goal of having your dev environment match your prod. env. is not the right approach in my opinion. Indeed. It's not just the right approach, it's the only approach for non-trivial applications. Sorry for being a bit snarky, but I've seen the alternatives crumble under stress way too often.