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title: "Why we don’t use a staging environment"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-don-t-use-a-staging-environment-ji0ehjz74
source_url: https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/why-we-dont-use-a-staging-environment
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-04-04T05:07:23.109Z
updated: 2022-04-04T05:07:23.109Z
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 14
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Why we don’t use a staging environment

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 14 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Squeaky uses a flat branching process to ship code to production. We only merge code into the main branch when it is ready to go live. This means we don’t have to wait for changes to be validated in development. We believe it’s helping us to ship faster, and lower the number of issues on production.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kkurko** · 0 upvotes

> Interesting approach - I'm working on a big enterprise project and we have staging -> rc -> release flow (really things are even harder), but it works good for us and I don't think that approach suggested it the article will work for really big project. But this is something I will think about organising release processes for smaller projects

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