Written up a case study of testing in production from a complicated migration between two infrastructure providers.
In this case, finding a way to experiment in production was a great way of derisking the work we needed to do.
Even so, we didn't jump at it straight away: there's a lot you can do with data alone, and even when you're really cautious, production doesn't come without risk.
Some strategies like instrumenting the database queries are valuable in a number of situations, and I hope this might help someone in a similar situation.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 10.1 ms ] threadIn this case, finding a way to experiment in production was a great way of derisking the work we needed to do.
Even so, we didn't jump at it straight away: there's a lot you can do with data alone, and even when you're really cautious, production doesn't come without risk.
Some strategies like instrumenting the database queries are valuable in a number of situations, and I hope this might help someone in a similar situation.