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I think their target audience isn't the typical HN reader, but the rest of the industry, where multiple staging environments are still a common thing (including

I think their target audience isn't the typical HN reader, but the rest of the industry, where multiple staging environments are still a common thing (including my current employer). The biggest issue we had with preview/review environments was resources not being cleaned up properly after destroying the environment (along with the associated costs), but that was more an indictment of our IaC code than anything else. It also didn't eliminate staged environments for things like the non-standard DB that we were using. As long as the changes on the DB side were net-new, it wasn't really an issue, though.

jeremy_k 4y ago
You're 100% correct that the target audience of this isn't HN readers. Having worked in this space for a number of years and having written this same fluff article in 2020, this type of content is marketed directly to engineering managers and VP types who are looking for solutions to issues around their SDLC or developer productivity. The technical implementation part can be interesting to readers and potential engineers who will use the platform and is worthwhile to have available, but this content is purely meant to cast a wide net.