/Arjun Iyer

Why Duplicating Environments For Microservices Backfires tl;dr: Duplicating microservice environments for testing creates unsustainable costs and operational complexity. Instead, modern engineering teams are adopting application-layer isolation with "sandboxes" - sharing underlying infrastructure while maintaining isolation through smart request routing. This approach cuts infrastructure costs by over 90% while enabling 10x faster testing cycles and boosting developer productivity.

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