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Cause people have to sell to eat in our culture of step on the next guy to have a life.

And it encourages and even facilitates shady shit.

This was all over the cell phone industry when I worked networks side. This was pre-iPhone era, just to give an idea how long ago.

I traveled around metro areas measuring signal quality, simple upgrades or maintenance, often stopping at nearby retail outlets rather than laptop in the truck.

I’d get to know the store staff and they’d talk freely around me about “fake” signups to juice numbers.

The trick was sign em up at end of month, cancel them before a bill got sent. That way the store appeared to hit their monthly target.

They’d often do fleet style signups; construction company would come in legit looking for 10 lines, the store would sign up 20 phones for construction company. Then return half before the 14-day no questions asked period.

This was going on all the time, across multiple stores, as far as I could tell. The details would change, from construction to startup or new business needing phone in a hurry.

Doesn’t everyone just spinup and teardown either an EC2 based Docker host or and EKS worker as needed?

Especially for CRUD apps and otherwise simple apps, testing should start after git push.

Don’t want to wait each time? Automatic build and teardown of test envs on a schedule, to avoid always up.

I still local test low-level code. But anything running in a cloud should really just be tested there.