Snowflake Environments
Each environment is hand-configured and unique. Nobody knows exactly what is running where. Configuration drift is constant.
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Tag: Environment-Consistency
Tests Pass in One Environment but Fail in Another
Tests pass locally but fail in CI, or pass in CI but fail in staging. Environment differences cause unpredictable failures.
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Staging Passes but Production Fails
Deployments pass every pre-production check but break when they reach production.
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Tests Randomly Pass or Fail
The pipeline fails, the developer reruns it without changing anything, and it passes.
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It Works on My Machine
Code that works in one developer’s environment fails in another, in CI, or in production. Environment differences make results unreproducible.
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