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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Clone production in 60 seconds

Make an exact copy of production in seconds. The app, the database, and the settings. No tickets. No waiting.

Every developer tool clones your code. None clone your data. Rediacc clones both.

$ rdc repo fork production
Snapshotting production environment .. done
Replicating 12 containers ..... done
Copying configuration (241 GB) .. done
Mounting encrypted storage .... done
Running health checks ......... 12/12 passed
✓ Clone ready: dev-sarah.internal
Time: 47s    Containers: 12    Size: 241 GB    Status: healthy

Illustrative output; actual runs may include extra logs.

60s
Clone Creation Time
100%
Production Identical
0
DevOps Tickets Needed
THE PROBLEM

Developers waste days waiting for environments

Your developer needs a test setup. So they file a ticket. Ops sets up a server. Someone configures it. Three days later, it still doesn't match production. Your developer has been stuck since Monday. And every interruption costs 23 minutes to refocus.

69% of developers lose 8+ hours weekly to tooling inefficiencies Atlassian 2024 [1]
$6.9M/yr cost of developer inefficiency per 500 developers Atlassian 2024 [1]
$50K/yr lost per dev to context switching Industry composite estimate [2]
The old way
Mon File ticket
Tue Ops reviews
Wed Set up server
Thu Configure it
Fri Doesn't match prod
With Rediacc
Run
60s
Done
THE REAL COST

What's this costing your team?

Drag the sliders to match your team. The numbers might surprise you.

Calculate your environment wait cost

Without Rediacc
Blocked time / sprint60 dev-days
Sprint capacity lost60%
Context switching cost$300,000/yr
Quarterly project slip~54 days
Annual team cost
$988,896
With Rediacc
Blocked time / sprint0 days
Sprint capacity lost0%
Context switching costMinimal
Quarterly project slip0 days
Annual team cost
$0
Based on $160K avg total compensation ($92/hr fully loaded). Env wait cost: blocked time × 60% productivity impact. Context switching: $24K-$50K/dev/year. 69% of developers lose 8+ hours weekly to inefficiencies (Atlassian 2024). Developers aren't fully idle while waiting — but cascading dependencies compound across sprints. Conservative estimates — actual savings often higher.
HOW IT WORKS

One command. Sixty seconds.

1

Run

Your developer runs one command. No tickets to file. No approvals to wait on.

2

Clone

An exact copy of production starts in 60 seconds. Same system, settings, and data.

3

Work

Start coding right away. No setup. No config files. Just work.

Production Running
nginx :443
api-server :8080
postgres :5432
redis :6379
worker :9090
Clone
47s
dev-sarah Cloned
nginx :443
api-server :8080
postgres :5432
redis :6379
worker :9090
UNDER THE HOOD

Why 60-second clones are possible

Here's the trick. Rediacc copies at the storage layer. It uses btrfs, an open-source storage tool built into Linux. A copy of a 241 GB setup finishes in under a second. It uses almost no extra space at first. As you change your clone, only the changed parts take new space. Ten clones of a 241 GB database can fit in under 12 GB.

Traditional approach
Rediacc (storage-layer clones)
Docker volume copy: full data copy, takes minutes to hours
Storage-layer copy: under a second, any size
AWS EBS snapshot: slow first reads, $0.75/snap/AZ/hr for fast restore
Fast reads right away, no lag, near-zero cost
Copying 241 GB with pg_dump: ~12-36 hours, PostgreSQL only
Any database, all cloned at once in one step
10 clones = 10x storage (2.4 TB)
10 clones share storage (~12 GB extra)
WHY IT MATTERS

What you get

60-second environments

Go from request to a working setup in under a minute. No more waiting days for a server.

Self-service, Git-integrated

Push a branch and get a copy of production with real data. No setup scripts. No fake test data. No ops tickets.

App + database + config

Not just code. You get the whole stack. The system, containers, databases, and settings, all copied together. You catch bugs at 1x cost, not 30-100x in production.

THE GAP

No other tool clones your full stack

Developer tools clone code. Database tools clone data. Only Rediacc clones both, together, in 60 seconds.

Capability CodespacesCoderVercelDelphixNeon Rediacc
Application cloning [3] [4] [5]
Database cloning [6] [7]
Combined app + DB clone
Any database engine [8]
Setup time Minutes[9] Minutes[10] Minutes[11] Minutes[12] Seconds[13] <60s
Production-identical data [14] [15]
We spun up 12 production-identical test environments in under 10 minutes — each with a full 241 GB PostgreSQL database. Our previous process was manual database dumps to staging. It took 3 engineers and 2 days per environment.
Before
3 days
After
60s
99.97% faster

Give your developers their time back

Start with the free Community edition. Clone up to 10 apps at no cost. No credit card.

Claim Design Partner Free forever for up to 10 apps
$ rdc repo fork production my-first-clone -m primary

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Clone any app in a container
Databases, mail servers, CI/CD, CMS, monitoring, logins. If it runs in a container, Rediacc clones it.
Sources & References
  1. Atlassian, DX & Wakefield Research, "State of Developer Experience Report," 2024. "Sixty-nine percent of developers are losing eight hours or more per week to inefficiencies." "For an organization with 500 developers, losing 8 hours per week costs roughly $6.9 million over the course of a year." www.atlassian.com
  2. Industry composite from vendor surveys and published benchmarks. "Context switching costs $24K–$50K per developer per year in lost productivity." release.com
  3. GitHub Codespaces creates a dedicated VM and clones the repository into a dev container for instant cloud development. docs.github.com
  4. Coder templates are Terraform-defined blueprints for creating identical, reproducible development workspaces. coder.com
  5. Vercel preview deployments create unique live URLs for every push/PR for isolated frontend review. vercel.com
  6. Delphix Virtual Databases (VDBs) are full read-write copies from snapshots requiring only a fraction of traditional storage. cd.delphix.com
  7. Neon branches are copy-on-write clones sharing pages with the parent until writes diverge. neon.com
  8. Delphix supports Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAP ASE, IBM Db2, MariaDB, and CockroachDB. cd.delphix.com
  9. Codespaces prebuilds pre-assemble source code, extensions, and dependencies for substantially faster codespace creation. docs.github.com
  10. Coder prebuilt workspaces maintain a ready-to-use pool, reducing creation time from up to 20 minutes to under a minute. coder.com
  11. Vercel deploys to its global edge network with apps going live within seconds of pushing code. vercel.com
  12. Delphix VDB provisioning completes in minutes rather than hours or days for traditional database copies. cd.delphix.com
  13. Neon branch creation takes approximately 1 second regardless of database size. neon.com
  14. Delphix creates full read-write virtual copies from production data sources for application, AI, and ML teams. cd.delphix.com
  15. Neon branches include all parent data by default providing instant production-identical copies. neon.com
Product performance claims are based on Rediacc's btrfs copy-on-write architecture. Calculator estimates use industry-standard cost models; actual costs vary by organization.