during the battlecode 2025, we encountered some issues with slow api endpoints when deployed to prod, the reason we didn't catch this earlier was due to small tables we use while testing and in staging
it also helps to have almost live data when testing new features and bug fixes, that's why I propose a way of replicating the prod database periodically, data masking of PII data, and deploy it to gc just like staging or even better enable local download(we need to make it small in size)
during the battlecode 2025, we encountered some issues with slow api endpoints when deployed to prod, the reason we didn't catch this earlier was due to small tables we use while testing and in staging
it also helps to have almost live data when testing new features and bug fixes, that's why I propose a way of replicating the prod database periodically, data masking of PII data, and deploy it to gc just like staging or even better enable local download(we need to make it small in size)