At work, we took the radically different approach of not having such a thing as a local environment. It won't necessarily work for every tech stack, but we mostly use lambdas, RDS, SQS, dynamoDB, kafka, and S3, so it's trivial to spin up and tear down the stack as we go. Essentially, instead of trying to ship the local machine to prod, we bring prod to the local machine.
It's a breath of fresh air not having to maintain a separate local environment.
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At work, we took the radically different approach of not having such a thing as a local environment. It won't necessarily work for every tech stack, but we mostly use lambdas, RDS, SQS, dynamoDB, kafka, and S3, so it's trivial to spin up and tear down the stack as we go. Essentially, instead of trying to ship the local machine to prod, we bring prod to the local machine.
It's a breath of fresh air not having to maintain a separate local environment.