Staging or Production Instance?

Question

Is there anywhere in the service runtime that would tell me if I\'m currently running on \'Staging\' or \'Production\'? Manually modifying the config to and from production

Answer 1

Here are 4 points to consider

1. VIP swap only makes sense when your service faces the outside world. AKA, when it exposes an API and reacts to requests.
2. If all your service does is pull messages from a queue and process them, then your services is proactive and VIP swap is not a good solution for you.
3. If your service is both reactive and proactive, you may want to reconsider your design. Perhaps split the service into 2 different services.
4. Eric's suggestion of modifying the cscfg files pre- and post- VIP swap is good if the proactive part of your service can take a short down time (Because you first configure both Staging and Production to not pull messages, then perform VIP Swap, and then update Production's configuration to start pulling messages).