koblinski

How does ReleaseHub work when you're working with a lot of microservices? I find the challenge isn't necessarily with monoliths, but our microservice-happy architecture design puts a lot of strain on devops, environment reliability, development, etc.

Also Heroku deployments are a PITA when you want fully (or partially) isolated environments but also work with a lot of microservices.

True. You can't remove the complexity, you just move it to another layer. This is great... until the thing isn't working, then you have to debug on a whole different layer, in a completely different kind of way.

"Always remember to write down the steps taken to get the container working."

Hahaha, I want to highlight this, underscore it, and blow it up. Seriously. Writing down your debugging steps is crucial but it's not the first thing you think to do and you kick yourself later for not doing it.

I've noticed a push to "delete staging." The idea is to push everything to prod and QA there with Feature Flags. It's a rat-nest of a solution to the problem of managing environments. Feature flags are perfect for some problems, but other times it's just shoving a square peg into a round hole. Like sure, we can walk to the store, it's cheap and easy. But in the long run, you probably should invest in a car.