Comment by bilekas

> Really the point I wanted to make was that your development and test environment should be the same as, or as close as possible to, your production environment.

I’m really glad to hear that actually, I think you did make that point but it was a bit overlooked with the other points.

About having better Dev environments I think you're also spot on, not just with infrastructure but also with support from other maybe more experienced developers who could identify these things early and knowledge share, for me at least that's one of the main development requirements, if you're not learning, you should be teaching.