All of their “problems” with staging are fixable bathwater that doesn't require baby ejection. I avoid staging for solo projects but it does feel a bit dirty.

All of their “problems” with staging are fixable bathwater that doesn't require baby ejection. I avoid staging for solo projects but it does feel a bit dirty. For team work or complex solo projects (such as anything commercial) I would never! On the cloud it is too easy to stage. To the point where I have teared down and recreated staging environment to save a bit of money at times because it is so easy to bring back. The article says to me their not using modern devops practices. It is rare a tech practice “hot take” post is on the money, and this post follows the rule not the exception. Have a staging environment! Just the work / thinking / tech debt payoff to make one is worth it for other reasons: including to streamline your deployment processes both human and in code.