"value":"\n <p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2024\/12\/24\/moving-changes\">harder it is to update an environment<\/a>, the less often it will be done and the more out of sync your environments will become.<\/p>\n\n<p>The more out of sync your environments are, the higher the chance there will be bugs or issues when changes are moved between environments.<\/p>\n\n<p>I've had situations where the code I wrote worked for my local database but didn't when moved to staging or production.<\/p>\n\n<p>I worked at one company where my development database was refreshed nightly, so my site was at most one day out of sync with production.<\/p>\n\n<p>I knew my code would work with the latest production data and not only the data from days, weeks or months before.<\/p>\n\n<p>It also meant that I needed to write my changes in an automated and repeatable way so they would be executed on the refreshed database and re-added instead of having to do it manually.<\/p>\n\n<p>How in sync are your environments and how similar to production is the environment you're testing against?<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2024\/12\/24\/moving-changes\">harder it is to update an environment<\/a>, the less often it will be done and the more out of sync your environments will become.<\/p>\n\n<p>The more out of sync your environments are, the higher the chance there will be bugs or issues when changes are moved between environments.<\/p>\n\n<p>I've had situations where the code I wrote worked for my local database but didn't when moved to staging or production.<\/p>\n\n<p>I worked at one company where my development database was refreshed nightly, so my site was at most one day out of sync with production.<\/p>\n\n<p>I knew my code would work with the latest production data and not only the data from days, weeks or months before.<\/p>\n\n<p>It also meant that I needed to write my changes in an automated and repeatable way so they would be executed on the refreshed database and re-added instead of having to do it manually.<\/p>\n\n<p>How in sync are your environments and how similar to production is the environment you're testing against?<\/p>\n\n ",