Testing in staging vs testing in production

Testing in staging vs testing in production

If you still: → Test in staging environments → Deal with frequent rollbacks → Receive constant bug complaints

...maybe the problem is trusting environments that don't reflect reality.

Why testing only in staging no longer works

→ Test environments rarely replicate production complexity → Third-party integrations (Twilio, Clicksign, banks, etc.) rarely work the same → The confidence generated by these tests can be illusory — and dangerous

What we do at Voidr

→ We run thousands of tests directly in production, every day → We continuously monitor critical flows to detect failures before users → We structure intelligent fallbacks for external services → We run automated post-release tests → And we activate automatic rollback when detecting critical failures

The result

→ More reliable releases → Fast response to failures → Drastic reduction in end-user impact

The new goal

The new goal is not to avoid 100% of bugs in production. It's to ensure that, if they happen:

→ They affect as few people as possible → They're identified before support needs to tell you → And they're reverted before becoming serious incidents

Is your team spending energy on the same environment as your users?