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Four components: an Isolated Twin destroyed after the test, Safe State (sanitized, referentially consistent, production-shaped Postgres), a Side-Effect Firewall simulating external APIs instead of calling them, and Load, which replays production traffic patterns from access logs (Antifailure). It targets the gap where neither Vercel-style previews nor Neon-style database branching gives you real traffic or safe external calls. The side-effect firewall is the piece nobody else packages, and it's the reason most teams never test migrations against real data.
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