Account vending machines where every dev can spin up there own account is a thing still under the control of some type of guardrails.
replySandpit should be a personal (often local, if possible) dev environment. The reason people get mad about dev being broken for long periods of time is that they cannot use dev to test their changes if your code (that they depend on) is broken in dev for long periods of time.
replyAgreed on all points. Local loops are faster and safer wherever possible.
replyBut particularly for devops / systems focused work, you lose too much "test fidelity" if you're not integrating against real services / cloud.
There’s no sandpit, only prod and dev, and you’re not allowed to break prod. Your developers work in partitions of prod. Dev is used for DR and other infra testing.
replyWell that’s just - dumb
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