What would happen if, following a release into production, your DPS stopped recognizing a certain type of failure or sent hundreds of notifications to your service team in a matter of minutes without there being a real problem?

As with any well-designed application, it is essential to test, validate, and release new DPS features in a structured way before deploying them to production.

To support this process, Servitly helps you adopt a testing, validation, and release workflow across three environments:

• DEVELOP – to freely experiment with and configure new features or modify existing ones.
• STAGING – to validate all new features and changes intended for production in a context that closely mirrors the real environment, leveraging Virtual Things.
• PRODUCTION – for release into production.

The Compare & Import Tool

To make porting between environments even easier, we introduced the Compare & Import tool in the Console.

With this tool, you can:

• compare environments (e.g., STAGING vs. PRODUCTION) and clearly identify:
  • new elements (algorithms, metrics, events, actions, etc.);
  • content such as images, templates, JS, CSS;
  • configuration changes to elements and features already in production;
• import only what you need, ensuring all necessary elements are included through a dependency-checking system that verifies the consistency of the target configuration before updating;
• adopt an incremental release policy by selecting specific changes to import without overwriting the entire configuration;

Leveraging environments together with the Compare and Import tool means increasing the quality of releases and accelerating the time-to-market of new features.

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The Compare and Import tool is available within the Console.

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