Comment on Ask HN: What is your company's on-call rotation like?parentComments−RankingMember10yAre you kidding? Testing in a copy of production (integration, staging), sure. You should never be testing anything in production if you value your clients and reputation (and sanity).−toomuchtodo10yThat's what a canary is for, where you only send it a percentage of traffic.I guarantee you that you'll never be able to accurately reproduce production traffic in staging or development.
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Are you kidding? Testing in a copy of production (integration, staging), sure. You should never be testing anything in production if you value your clients and reputation (and sanity).
That's what a canary is for, where you only send it a percentage of traffic.
I guarantee you that you'll never be able to accurately reproduce production traffic in staging or development.