Hi! This is a little microproject I want to do: I want to compress my years of experience building the API backend of a top-50 Steam game into a bunch of weird, rambling advice that I can deliver with all of the authority of someone who can’t differentiate success due to merit from success due to luck.
work environments are divided into dev, prod, and stag
dev is the live one so named because that’s where we show off our feature dev-elopment to our customersprod is a test environment where we prod at new features that aren’t ready yetstag is a special build where all of the avatars are replaced with various deerfor some reason new developers are confused by this but I think it’s entirely clear
I’m going to go against the common wisdom on this one. If you aren’t confident enough to push to production on Friday, you aren’t confident enough to push to production, period. Invest in your rollback and monitoring and staged rollout tech until you don’t lose 20% of your week.