Software development article advocates for separating draft and execution environments

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A software development article discusses key architectural principles for building secure and resilient systems. It argues that development and production environments should remain isolated failure domains, even if they are both low-cost. The author emphasizes that remote services should never have write access to a project's core code repository. The piece concludes by outlining a model where code drafts are generated in one environment and safely tested in another before any local integration.

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