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bdangubic 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Database mocks are not worth it

in 2024/2025 you just might be working with 985 petabyte database which just might have a few issues being “spun up” :)

nerdponx 6 months ago | [–]

I am definitely not talking about a full copy of the data here. I more head in mind a small but representative sample, enough to run and exercise units of code with confidence.

sickblastoise 6 months ago | [–]

Are you developing directly against your production database?

bdangubic 6 months ago | [–]

replica in the staging environment

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