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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Clone production in 60 seconds

Spin up exact copies of production — application, database, and configuration — for development and testing. No tickets. No waiting.

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

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$ 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. CLI reference: rdc repo fork

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

Developers waste days waiting for environments

Your developer needs a test environment. They file a ticket. Ops provisions a server. Someone configures it. Three days later, it doesn't match production anyway. Meanwhile, your developer has been blocked since Monday — and every interruption costs 23 minutes of recovery time.

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 Provision server
Thu Configure env
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

Developer runs rdc ceph snapshot create production. No tickets. No approvals.

2

Clone

An exact copy of production spins up in 60 seconds. Same OS, configs, data.

3

Work

Start developing immediately. No setup. No configuration. Just code.

Production Running
nginx :443
api-server :8080
postgres :5432
redis :6379
worker :9090
5 containers 241 GB
Clone
47s
dev-sarah Cloned
nginx :443
api-server :8080
postgres :5432
redis :6379
worker :9090
5 containers 241 GB
UNDER THE HOOD

Why 60-second clones are possible

Rediacc uses btrfs copy-on-write snapshots at the filesystem level. A snapshot of a 241 GB production environment completes in sub-seconds and consumes zero additional storage initially. As the clone diverges through development, only changed blocks use new space. Ten clones of a 241 GB database can use less than 12 GB of additional storage.

Traditional approach
Rediacc (btrfs CoW)
Docker volume copy: full data copy, minutes to hours
Metadata-only snapshot: sub-second, any size
AWS EBS snapshot: async, lazy-load penalty, $0.75/snap/AZ/hr for fast restore
Instant read performance, no lazy-load, near-zero cost
pg_dump of 241 GB: ~12-36 hours, PostgreSQL only
Any database engine cloned simultaneously in one atomic operation
10 clones = 10x storage (2.4 TB)
10 clones share blocks via CoW (~12 GB delta)
WHY IT MATTERS

What you get

60-second environments

From request to working environment in under a minute. No more waiting days for provisioning.

Self-service, Git-integrated

Push a branch, get a production-identical environment with real data. No setup scripts, no seed data, no ops tickets.

App + database + config

Not just code — the full stack. OS, containers, databases, and configuration cloned together. Bugs caught 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] ✗ ✓
Provisioning 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 workloads at no cost. No credit card.

Start Free with Community Free forever for up to 10 workloads
$ rdc repo fork production my-first-clone -m primary
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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.