<ul><li>Engineering teams adopting microservices architecture have typical CI/CD workflow.</li><li>Shared staging environments create bottlenecks which slow down teams and undermine the advantages of microservices.</li><li>Bugs from one team can block multiple others due to shared staging environments.</li><li>Multiple PRs being merged daily makes it hard to isolate why a test fails.</li><li>Multiple teams waiting for their turn to test features in staging delays releases and creates bottlenecks.</li><li>Automated tests scheduled for off-peak hours delay feedback loop and productivity.</li><li>Shared staging environments lead to slower shipping of features and patches.</li><li>Isolated testing eliminates the problems caused by shared environments and enables true continuous delivery.</li><li>Platforms like Signadot and other companies have adopted the model of isolated testing.</li><li>Isolated testing allows teams to catch issues early in the development cycle, reducing the complexity and cost of fixing bugs later.</li></ul>

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