In a recent webinar hosted by Shipyard on June 22, 2023, co-founder Benjie De Groot discussed how using ephemeral environments can significantly accelerate end-to-end (E2E) testing and optimize the development workflow. Ephemeral environments are isolated, short-lived copies of production infrastructure that allow developers to run tests in parallel on every code change, tackling common testing challenges like broken tests, flakiness, and staging bottlenecks. By automatically creating a testing environment for each pull request, developers can test early and often, reducing the need for extensive test suite maintenance and saving significant time and costs related to infrastructure. The webinar highlighted success stories of companies using Shipyard, reporting increased developer velocity and reduced cloud infrastructure costs. Participants were also encouraged to explore further resources on ephemeral environments and were offered a trial with an additional incentive for early sign-ups.