MADE IN DETROIT

Princess is our staging environment. So why didn’t we just call it “staging”? Partly, that’s just how we roll. We used to have an environment called “Staging” that was the last stop before code went live to everyone. However, it was not ideally set up; the first time your code would interact with actual production hardware was when you deployed. Princess uses production data stores, our production network and production hardware. In order to make a clean mental break from the old way, one of our rad engineers, Eric Fixler, came up with “Princess”.