Should companies skip the staging process altogether when going through software testing. I mean. Staging does have its pros. But It still can't implement 1 important matter... Traffic. And alot of it.

I mean, that's why you should also do load tests

If the management isn't proactive enough to understand the significance of stress/load testing, then they deserve what happens to the company/website.

As a developer, make sure that you write a mail or something to have some solid proof that you tried to warn them.

I mean, unit tests don't do things that staging does, and staging don't do things that functional tests do. They are different tools for testing different things

Simplest answer to that is route requests to prod and staging, only serve responses from prod.

that's what plab environments are for. To test performance with howling traffic through every bit of code and infra.

Yeah, just develop on production. Skip all that testing and staging nonsense.

@Oktokolo That's the hottest hot take you can have as a dev. If you want, you can design your app to consider "test" and "live" accounts on production and have modules written accordingly.

But this idea wouldn't fly with the higher ups. That's why I do it and not tell anyone.