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And to make things even more confusing, our engineers were all using the dogfooding version of Asana, which runs on different AWS-EC2 instances than the production version

... That kind of defeats the purpose of "dogfooding". Sure, you have to use the same code (hopefully) but it doesn't give you the same experience.

You want to replicate as much as possible, but if we ran canary on the same machines we could have testing code bring down production. That's bad.

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