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Re:We don’t use a staging environment by chrisseaton on Sunday April 03, 2022 @04:38PM (#30900413)
> If you are saying you don't have a staging environment, what you are really saying is that your company doesn't have any QA process.

Come on - this is nonsense.

Feature flags for example?

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Re:We don’t use a staging environment by tshaddox on Sunday April 03, 2022 @04:42PM (#30900439)
Feature flag systems don’t magically prevent a new feature from causing a bug for other existing features, or even taking the whole site down.
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Re:We don’t use a staging environment by morelisp on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:02PM (#30900619)
Speaking as the guy who pushed for and built our staging environments, neither do staging environments. (Speaking also as the guy who has taken the whole site down a few times.)
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