Now Learning Course: Developer Sandbox Basics

[KiernanM]

If you’ve ever tripped over a teammate’s changes in a shared instance, you know the pain of collisions. Developer Sandboxes are designed to end that. Instead of slowing down on a single dev environment, every builder gets their own isolated workspace—with safe data, freedom to experiment, and no risk of clobbering each other’s work.

We just released a new Now Learning course that walks through the fundamentals:

Developer Sandbox Basics on NowLearning

What you’ll learn:

• The value proposition behind Developer Sandboxes and why they matter.

• How Developer Sandboxes can integrate into your existing workflows and methods.
• How you can begin to explore developing with sandboxes while maintaining your core development using ServiceNow Studio and our existing tooling. 

• How Sandboxes actually work day-to-day.

• Git-based version control with a branching strategy example.

• How Sandboxes are packaged and how they differ from sub-prod instances.

It’s a straightforward way to get up to speed on why Sandboxes are positioned as the modern alternative to the old shared-instance model.

Why it matters

Developer Sandboxes unlock parallel development without the drama. Instead of hoping teammates don’t overwrite each other, you can isolate changes, promote them cleanly, and scale your build process without slowing down.

What’s next

Once you’ve uncovered the basics in this course, keep an eye out—we’ll be releasing more content that digs deeper into:

• Branching strategies and promotion lanes (Fluent, Studio + Git, Update Sets).

• Migration paths from update sets to Git-based version control.

• Conflict resolution patterns that make merges predictable.

• Governance guardrails like PR checks, automated testing, and release flows.

This course is the on-ramp; the next wave of content will show you how to scale these patterns in real-world enterprise environments.

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Your turn: Have you tried Developer Sandboxes yet?
What’s been your biggest “aha” moment moving off a shared dev instance?
Drop your experiences below—we’ll be building on them in upcoming posts.

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