You will need to provision several environments in the course of your application development. These environments should be provisioned only when they are actually required. This section discusses these environments and their features.
Application development environments
Development environment
The primary purpose of the development environment is to support development and unit testing activities. This environment is usually provisioned with the smallest instances to support your developers. In addition, you can use a shared database instance with schema space for each of your developers. Depending on the standards within your organization, you can do daily, weekly, or on-demand deployments in this environment. You may or...