I came across an article posted last week on what environments are needed for SharePoint development (re-posted below) and wanted to share my thoughts.
I totally agree that you need four different environments: development, test, staging, and production. I would be willing to bet that a lot of companies don’t have all four of these, although it’s not like they don’t have companies like DDEV to help them here. Having said that, we only have dev, test, and production where I work.
One thing that was mentioned in the article that I had never thought about: make sure your test environment is not a single-server farm (even if your production farm is currently single-server). Problems could arise down the road if you wish to scale out your production farm and find out that none of your code works in a multi-server environment. I’m willing to bet that most companies do not adhere to this advice either.
The entire article is below:
The Environments Needed for Smart SharePoint Development (via Dice News in Tech)
yes…really..i agree from you and i like your thoughts. 🙂
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