Ask HN: How do you debug prod data in dev?

1 pointbluelightning2k3 comments

Hey,

In both my companies I've had issues replicating issues for specific users/accounts.

Seems to me to options are

1. Copy all of prod to dev

2. Maintain custom scripts to pull a significant subset

3. Override env variables to actually connect to prod & try not to mess up

Then similarly with user-emulation the only option I can see is a hacky script.

I'm considering building tooling around this & just curious how this works in other companies.