Why Podia doesn’t use review apps anymore | Jamie’s blog

It turns out the review apps are fundamentally incompatible with short-lived branches. We prefer to use feature flags.As a quick review (🥁🤣), Heroku has a feature that allows you to spin up a new “review app” for each git branch. This is useful when you’ve been working on a feature for a while and you need to get feedback from a designer, product owner, support team etc. They are kept up to date with changes to the branch and can have their own databases etc. We have them automatically routable by DNS, through automation with Cloudflare to add the DNS entries, and using self-signed SSL certs. They perform exactly like our staging app but are tied to a specific branch.