I find this topic very interesting. On one hand, I am sure that every person reading this has run into a ‘bug’ introduced because of a dev/prod mismatch. On the other hand, the only way to get a total match is to either pay an obscene amount of money or roll everything yourself (which will also have cost, much of which can never be recovered).

As an example, I can build something, deploy it on my own and create a near one to one match. But that means building everything and never using a managed service. If the application interfaces with another tool like Salesforce, do we have multiple instances for every single developer?

Or, do we roll our own CRM?

Matching is great but in a managed world it’s very expensive.