[Catalyst] Development environments and performance

[Ash Berlin]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Wade.Stuart at fallon.com wrote:

> "John Goulah" <jgoulah at gmail.com> wrote on 01/16/2008 11:13:06 AM:
>
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>> Why wouldn't you just use the standalone server bundled with
>> Catalyst?  Fcgi is great for production, but the processes are
>> fairly thick memory wise, so having instances for each developer
>> could be an issue.   We use the cat server for development and works
>> fine for about 5-10 people at any given time on a modest box (4G ram)
>
> Could be a massive assumption,  but usually when you go through the  
> cost
> (time, cap) of building out a dev server environment you want it to  
> mirror
> your production servers as much as possible so that you spend time
> squishing bugs that may exist in your production environment -- not  
> some
> other different environment.  If they are using FCGI in prod it makes
> perfect sense to do so in dev.  Why battle bugs that may be  
> introduced on
> the standalone server, or worse miss bugs that _do_ affect your  
> production
> environment because you are developing on a different environment?
>
> -Wade
>

No, thats a testing environment. Dev is usually very different  
process. At least at every place I've worked at.