Wacky Hotfix Data Duplication Issue

ian11 · 2025-02-21T18:49:17.115Z

I’m sharing this for the benefit of the community since I just wasted two hours of my life trying to figure out what was happening…

This involves stripe Subscriptions.

My App has a data base item for the subscription, and then it creates a subscription in stripe and synchronizes the info.

In my app, there are two ways to make a Stripe subscription…

#1 - Created by the app. Data base item is created and pushed to stripe.

#2 - Created by an outside app. In this case my app listens for the stripe subscription to be created and then creates the database item.

To prevent duplicating subscriptions I have a condition on the inbound webhook workflow “if this (Database) Subscription exists, terminate this flow”

Now we get to the confusion…

In my hot fix environment I was experimenting with subscriptions…

And it was creating duplicate subscriptions for some odd reason.

Here’s what was happening…

I create a subscription in my app…
The app pushes the information to Stripe, which creates a subscription and fires back a webhook with the subscription info
My Hotfix environment doesn’t get the message, it’s not even hooked up to stripe
My development environment DOES get the message and since there is no subscription item (different environment) dutifully creates the subscription item in my database…
Here comes the weird…
The hotfix and development environment synchronize with each other… and now it looks like there are two subscriptions created.

Anyway - TLDR: Hotfix and Development databases synchronize and this can be confusing sometimes.

hi.luisacosta · 2025-02-21T22:09:13.287Z

Firstly, Why are you experimenting with a hotfix? LOL

Second, There are only 2 DB’s, Prod and Dev. So there is no new Database when you create a hotfix.

ian11 · 2025-02-21T22:51:00.178Z

Ha - Great question.

The answer is because I urgently needed to make a change, but I had to test it of course.

And I wish I knew there were only two environments… would have made my life a lot easier

ian11 · 2025-02-21T22:55:25.820Z

I urgently needed to make a change and my dev environment is a disaster because I am working on a major update