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Echoing the other comments about just how bad the setup here is. Setting up staging/dev environments does not take so much time as to put you behind your compet
by catapps 1y ago
Echoing the other comments about just how bad the setup here is. Setting up staging/dev environments does not take so much time as to put you behind your competition. There's a vast, VAST chasm between "We're testing on the prod DB with no backups" and the dreaded guardrails and checkboxes.
That being said, I would love to see more resources about incident management for small teams and how to strike this balance. I'm the only developer working on a (small, but somehow super political/knives-out) company's big platform with large (F500) clients and a mandate-from-heaven to rapidly add features -- and it's by far the most stressed out I've ever been in my career if not life. Every incident, whether it be the big GCP outage from last week or a database crash this week, leads to a huge mental burden that I have no idea how to relieve, and a huge passive-aggressive political shitstorm I have no idea how to navigate.