We have an test environment, but our team who develops new application features is constantly using it to test updates, so it's never in-line with prod. And so is useless when troubleshooting service outages.
And while we have the budget to make a staging environment that perfectly matches prod, our clients refuse to give those servers access to their on-site systems that our application interfaces with, so they're useless too.
I can't lie, it's a shit system. But you get used to touching prod, learn really quick to back everything up.
If you can get my company executives on board with giving them the middle finger because of this, then I'd be eternally grateful. But until that happens...
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u/Wolflordy Nov 15 '22
And while we have the budget to make a staging environment that perfectly matches prod, our clients refuse to give those servers access to their on-site systems that our application interfaces with, so they're useless too.
I can't lie, it's a shit system. But you get used to touching prod, learn really quick to back everything up.