• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    True. Nothing beats running your unit tests in the actual container image that will be run in production.

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      22 hours ago

      Race condition that only happens on the much faster production hardware: Allow me to introduce myself

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        10 hours ago

        Or an issue that only appears when using ARM and not on my AMD64 dev machine

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        22 hours ago

        Unit tests can’t win ’em all. That’s where things like integration tests, staging environments, and load testing come in.

        The final layer of protection is the deployment strategy, be it rolling, canary, or blue-geen.

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      Yeah, and it’s useful to just check everything so you don’t forget to add some essential system package for e.g. SSL, especially when working with Alpine.