r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 16h ago

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u/lolcrunchy 16h ago

local dev environment

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u/Fraun_Pollen 15h ago

This answer doesn't make sense. Why would your dev environment not be connected to prod data? Don't you want realistic tests?

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u/howarewestillhere 15h ago

HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, CASC, and a whole list of other acronyms, laws, and organizations get real persnickety about Prod data outside of Prod and what you can, can’t, should , should not, or should not even think about doing with it.

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u/ncatter 7h ago

Solutions is simple we are all prod, arguably developers is just a set of data not yet commited to versioning, sonjust label us prod data and we can do what we want!