You're misunderstanding... You have development boxes for those services. If you have a web service and you're not doing work on it, there's no need to have a local instance of it.
Obviously production data that is mirrored on development machines should be cleaned. -Matt On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Thomas D. <whist...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > interesting topic. > > Hector Virgen wrote: > > We have each developer set up their own dev environment > > on their local machine. > > Well, I guess this is a common solution for small projects. But when you > have to deal with real/big applications, that won't work anymore: > > - Maybe you are using other services like "Sphinx" for search. Should every > developer run and maintain a copy of Sphinx? > > - Maybe you are working on an intranet application, which requires > authorization. You will authorize against a LDAP system. Should every > developer run and maintain a local LDAP service? > > - In real applications, you will have multiple entry points (website, API > access...). Do you think every developer can run and maintain these things > locally? > > - What's about your data? We all know that dummy data are not the same like > live data from REAL users. Your dummy data may also run out of date (do you > update your dummy data regular, so that a query which will fetch the latest > X orders from the last Y days always returns data?), which will cause other > trouble. > > So you might end with providing a dump of you live data on every Monday. > But > do you really want that? Maybe your application is a shop system, your data > contains credit card numbers and other sensible information. Do you want > that every developer has access to these data? ;) > > - Logging. Your application will generate many log files. You might end up > using something where you store and manage your log files. Are your > developers able to run and maintain a copy of that solution locally? > > - What's about mailing? Every application nowadays sends mails. So your > developers need to test these functionality. But you won't want that your > developers sends out test mails to real users. Should every developer run > and maintain a local mail server? > > > It would be nice to hear from others, who are dealing with real > applications, how they manage these problems. > > > -- > Regards, > Thomas > > >
