It’s Time To Kill Staging: The Case for Testing in Production

Staging has always been a necessary evil. New approaches to isolation and on-demand sandboxes have finally made it just plain evil.

For decades, the staging environment has been a fixture of software development. And for just as long, it has been hated by developers everywhere. It’s the proverbial traffic jam that every developer is forced to sit in just to get their work validated.

Yet staging is no longer necessary; its time has come and gone. Newer isolation methods enable developers to test safely in live environments, providing fast,…