James Mooring - No dev. No staging. No problem. - Laracon AU 2025

James Mooring shares how Astalty ships straight to production with trunk-based development, simple infrastructure, and a strong engineering quality bar. He breaks down the practices that make it safe, then demos a live production merge and feature-flag rollout on stage. 📚 ## Chapters 00:26 Shipping straight to production, no staging 01:03 Who is James Mooring and what Astalty builds 02:53 The real-world constraints: mission-critical, compliance, sensitive data 03:45 git-flow and staging branch complexity vs trunk-based development 06:06 “Real app” scale and deployment frequency stats 07:12 Why staging servers are harmful 08:50 Why deploy fast 10:00 The four pillars 10:22 Stable code tactics 15:06 Zero-bug policy, tests as non-negotiable 16:11 Simple infrastructure 17:55 Empower engineers 19:24 Feature flags in practice 25:06 Live demo: merge to production 28:24 Do you really need a staging server? https://x.com/lioneagle_ https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-mooring/ https://laracon.au