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7/15/2026
If You Can't Run It Local, You're Not Ready to Deploy

If You Can't Run It Local, You're Not Ready to Deploy

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The article argues that if a team cannot run its critical path locally, it is not truly ready to deploy. It introduces a Docker Compose-based local dependency stack (shivakadiri/dev-tools) providing PostgreSQL with pgvector, Grafana observability, WireMock API stubbing, n8n workflows, Ollama for local LLM inference, and LiteLLM as an OpenAI-compatible proxy. The stack lets developers reproduce failures, debug agents, and exercise full workflows without cloud access.

  • •Local reproducibility is the real test of deploy readiness
  • •dev-tools Docker Compose stack bundles Postgres, Grafana, WireMock, Ollama, LiteLLM, n8n, and more
  • •One command brings up the full local dependency plane for AI and API development

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