Staging Servers are Dead! Long Live a Staging Server

The author argues against the use of staging servers, claiming that they increase risk, time, and decrease quality. Many experts agree with this perspective, suggesting that effective continuous delivery and DevOps should not involve staging servers. However, some concerns have been raised about the practicality and validity of eliminating staging servers. The author addresses these concerns by advocating for through and complete automation, continuous integration, feature flagging, and other techniques to ensure smooth transitions from development to production. They argue that staging servers can be replaced with alternative methods such as feature flags, which allow developers to move features to production more quickly and conduct feature validation on the actual production environment.