[catapps]

Echoing the other comments about just how bad the setup here is. Setting up staging/dev environments does not take so much time as to put you behind your competition. There's a vast, VAST chasm between "We're testing on the prod DB with no backups" and the dreaded guardrails and checkboxes.

That being said, I would love to see more resources about incident management for small teams and how to strike this balance. I'm the only developer working on a (small, but somehow super political/knives-out) company's big platform with large (F500) clients and a mandate-from-heaven to rapidly add features -- and it's by far the most stressed out I've ever been in my career if not life. Every incident, whether it be the big GCP outage from last week or a database crash this week, leads to a huge mental burden that I have no idea how to relieve, and a huge passive-aggressive political shitstorm I have no idea how to navigate.