What’s In Your Development Database? The Answer: Production Data.


Are your developers working with live production data, completely made-up synthetic data, or something in between? I posted a poll here on the blog and on a few of my social media feeds, and here were the results:

Note that the numbers can add up to more than 100% because folks could mark multiple choices if they had multiple teams with different approaches.

I also posted it on Reddit, which has its own separate (smaller) results, but I like having samples from more audiences:

No matter which way you slice it, about half are letting developers work with