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> What I've seen done is that the staging environment is skipped, but instead concentric releases are performed on the customers. So released code goes first to
by scubbo 4y ago
> What I've seen done is that the staging environment is skipped, but instead concentric releases are performed on the customers. So released code goes first to a small group of users, and then widens from there if everything looks good.
If you really want to invest in extensive testing, you can do both! Hell, _and_ you can have a load testing environment as well.
- andrewmutz 4y agoYeah, we had tooling to load a snapshot of customer data (with PII removed) into an ephemeral environment for when developers needed data that was more authentic. This worked for performance related work or just for features that needed a complex data model to be useful (ML apps, etc)