Before a change goes live, it has to prove itself against real data, or a fault only shows up in front of customers.
The staging environment can be filled at the push of a button, from current live data or from development data. A receipt then confirms that all the data has landed in full and every pending database change ran through cleanly: it is applied twice, and the second run does nothing more.
Nothing moves further toward live without that receipt.
What ports as-is
- The staging environment is filled from a copy-only pull straight off the server, no restart needed
- A staging environment still in use can still be overwritten, access is briefly freed up for it
- A full overwrite with a backup taken first and a row-count check afterward
- Every database change is applied twice across every environment as a safety check, the second run does nothing more
What we build for you
- Which server and which databases are production, and how access to them is controlled
- The staging and database names, and the login your application uses to sign in
- The database change scripts and their own verification queries
