What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake

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  • testcontainers-python

    Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.

  • Have a script for spinning up an identical database model in a docker container with your DB of choice. Even nicer than the manual route is depending on your language there's normally some sort of "testcontainers" type library (e.g in Java world https://www.testcontainers.org/ or in PYthon world https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python) that allows you to run a test that automatically spins up a container then you can use the network connection and run tests against it. E.g If I was testing a postgres integration my test would look like

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