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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by esafak »

traceroute66 wrote: post #178
esafak wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 64 gigs of ram is nothing for a local machine It's not nothing. Most developers are issued laptops, and a 64GB Macbook costs over $3000. Plus a CDE can be shared.

> Most developers are issued laptops, and a 64GB Macbook costs over $3000. This is unfortunatley a nonsensical argument. As a company, you are employing a developer to write code. Both the company and the developer are happy when they are at their most productive. And to that extent, a $3,000 laptop is a perfectly reasonable "tool of the trade". Also don't forget companies can lease laptops if they don't have the cas…

Developers do not typically get to choose.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by ivan_burazin »

danmur wrote: post #140

Not me, but I have been looking for a self-hosted CDE; anyone have experience with Eclipse Che they would share?

Daytona.io is also a Self hosted alternative to Codespaces. We have not launched publicly but feel free to book a call (on the website) and can send it to you

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by ivan_burazin »

alfalfasprout wrote: post #109

We now have an in-house cloud dev environment at Airbnb (note: my opinions are my own and not those of my employer) and it was a huge improvement over what we had in the past. Spinup time is fast, it's easy to use VSCode remotely, and it's easy to have multiple environments for different types of projects (Python, Java, Go, etc.). Neovim + LSP's also works perfectly if you prefer that over VSCode (via ssh)

Would it be possible to see what your CDE looks like?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by nojvek »

We’ve been using vscode containers for our complex repos since getting deterministic Python environments are almost impossible with current tooling.

For our node/js repos, yarn does a great job at keeping things simple, deterministic and fast. So even if we have containers, devs use the direct method for faster devloop.

For bigger companies with much more complexity, remote devboxes make a ton of sense. You want to manage farms, not individual flower pots.

Nice thing about containers is that you can run it locally without internet.

Containers + vpn solves a lot of pain.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by ivan_burazin »

bitwize wrote: post #72

Yeh. We use DevPod to work in cloud dev environments in our AWS cloud. I hate it. DevPod brings its own SSH implementation that injects itself into your server and munges CRLF, making ssh sessions to your workspace fraught with difficulty except for basic command line applications. The only terminal that seems to work is the one built in to Visual Studio Code. Maybe Microsoft Windows Terminal also works, I dunno. If…

daytona.io is a brand new alternative (disclosure I am the cofounder), these issues do not exist and your company can host it as well,

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by ob »

We at LinkedIn have been using CDE's (we call them rdev) for quite a while. We wrote about them in our engineering blog:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2021/building-in-the-c...

I'm happy to answer questions but others have already posted many of the benefits. As far as I know, local containers on macOS still have performance issues so we mostly use them in the cloud.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by dmattia »

esafak wrote: post #73
dmattia wrote: post #59

I used Cider while at Google, and setup Google Codespaces at the startup I'm working at now. Some notes: - Codespaces uses the devcontainer spec, so folks can use our setup offline if they want - I get far fewer questions about how to do XYZ, and when I do get questions, I can almost always reproduce them, which is a breath of fresh air - We do pay a fair chunk to use high CPU/memory machines, this is worth it for us…

I presume you mean GitHub Codespaces because Google's offering is called IDX, and in development.

Oh yeah good call. Cidr was the internal tool I used at Google when I was an employee there. Github Codespaces is what my current company uses

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

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Post by ivan_burazin »

omgmajk wrote: post #196
trumbitta2 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issues you listed are non-existent with Gitpod. You can point whatever editor at it, and work on code residing anywhere.

Good to know but not really for us. Their cloud will not be able to access our internal network where most of our stuff lives. I'm sure it's configurable to some degree but is never going to happen.

If you need a selfhosted and managed solution check out our product at https://daytona.io
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