If you are a platform engineer or an engineering leader, look at your current development pipeline. Is everything treated equally?
To me, it seems that there is a glaring discrepancy in the way we treat different parts of the stack.
When a frontend developer pushes code to a feature branch, tools like Vercel or Netlify immediately spin up a deploy preview. It is a unique URL, isolated from production, where they can click around and validate changes instantly.
When a database engineer needs to test a schema migration, modern platforms like
