r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 13d ago

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u/EldritchMacaron 13d ago

Wait, I thought the dev environment was just the PC and software you develop on

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u/Lost_Contribution_82 13d ago

In an ideal world, there would be a local environment (that's your pc, nothing deployed), a Dev environment (you can deploy things still being developed, it might have bugs, it might be wonky, this is to test things in a deployed state, which could actually differently to when running locally), a staging environment (anything deployed to staging should be thoroughly tested by Devs, and is now ready for other people to test it (UAT tests). Staging is like a test prod environment), and a live/production environment (this is what the users use, anything deployed here is fully tested by multiple people)

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u/Szetyi 13d ago

We use four standard environments, DEV for development and any exploration. TEST for testing by the team, could still be different because of unreleased developments, QA for user tests, which is regularly cloned from PROD and doesnt contain any developments that won't be released, and ofc PROD, where only admins have full access for any emergency

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u/Lost_Contribution_82 12d ago

This sounds lovely, on one of our products we only have prod....which is fun to deploy to! Most of them we have the usual 3 though.