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That's a really good point. I think what made it quite easy for us is that we maintain a staging environment. Staging is constantly tested by QA simulating our
by hangonhn 4y ago
That's a really good point.
I think what made it quite easy for us is that we maintain a staging environment. Staging is constantly tested by QA simulating our workflows so non-production data is being constantly generated. When we spin up our preview environments, we use snapshots from the staging systems to seed the preview environments.
Your point on data though really gets to the crux of the problem. Deploying the services is trivial these days with k8s, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Docker, etc. but the data part is hard.
- jcraft 4y ago> but the data part is hard. I'd love to learn more about the challenges you have with data. My company essentially provides data-anonymization-as-a-service and we integrate with ephemeral environments, but we could probably improve the integrations.
- hangonhn 4y agoGot a link to your company's service? Would love to learn more. We work in healthcare so data-anonymization is essential. If we can take prod data and erase all the PII, it would be AMAZING.