rel:: [[CICD]] [[process]] [[devops]] # There Is No Staging Version of The Internet From [No Staging Version of the Internet twitter rant](https://twitter.com/pmbauer/status/1263911755111116800). ## Thesis The value of a staging environment is directly proportional to how well it simulates production load, ergo the value is proportional to operational complexity, asymptotically approaching production itself. Is production multiple data centers? Do you have a multi-datacenter staging? Do you staff to keep staging operational? Do you page people when staging is down? The only environment everybody actually cares about is production. That’s it. Being good at testing changes in production is the only scalable path forward: canaries, [[shadow test]]ing, [[blue-green deploys]]. You have those, and staging becomes a cross-section of production. No need to have a separate isolated [[staging environment]]