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Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by czechdeveloper »

amelius wrote: post #15

From their homepage: > Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud This is the first thing I see on loading their website. Is this their main selling point? Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"? It works perfectly fine on my local machine, and I could even automate syncing if I wanted. Also, I could just ssh into my server and start an editor there. > Build WordPres…

> Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"?

It does not HAVE to be. But it is another option and great one at certain situations. Such as showing someone how to start programming, working on small project without having to deal with setup time etc.

I really like it actually. It's not meant to be replacement of local machine IDEs.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by goldenkey »

jecyll wrote: post #14
arahaya wrote: post #8

The best cloud IDE now with the biggest cloud service. little scary but very interesting at the same time

Amazon works coniniously to become the provider for everything you can imagine

Even the best job? Because working for them was the worst work environment I ever experienced in 15 years of employment as a software development engineer.

Amazon may have some cheap prices and their customer service has the margins available to offer refunds/replacements quickly. But that all is easy guise. Amazon is rotten inside. Each product team does whatever it wants. So how long can the exterior hold a toxic spill?

Those AWS dashboard icons look really nice. Makes everything look so organized and contiguous. But each of those services is done in different languages, different frameworks, by different teams, with whatever crap will hold the leaks and terrible patchwork programming by their average employee who will on average, stay less than a year. The churn is real.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ebbv »

amelius wrote: post #15

From their homepage: > Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud This is the first thing I see on loading their website. Is this their main selling point? Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"? It works perfectly fine on my local machine, and I could even automate syncing if I wanted. Also, I could just ssh into my server and start an editor there. > Build WordPres…

The reason my team uses C9 is it facilitates remote pair programming in a really nice way. That's the main purpose of it for us.

It also means I can have a nice IDE running on our development server instead of on my local machine, which is handy because I have two different computers I use for work (a desktop and a laptop.) My workspace is not just similar but literally the same workspace on both machines.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ebbv »

Congratulations C9. My team uses C9 literally all day every day, and I hope this only means you'll have more resources at your disposal for faster iteration.

My only concern is that this could possibly mean getting rid of SSH Workspaces. Please don't let that happen. SSH Workspaces are required for us, and if that goes away we will have to find another solution.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ebbv »

maxaf wrote: post #7
petercooper wrote: post #3

Once fully integrated with AWS, this could offer a rather exciting, low friction way to work on the platform. Using Cloud9 to build, test, and deploy Lambda functions from a single interface with all the auth stuff dealt with automatically.. you could have some powerful APIs running in the cloud very quickly. (Maybe there's even a play for getting this stuff into the hands of non-engineering employees. Build the "Exc…

The last thing this world needs is mission-critical software edited willy-nilly through a "convenient" web browser interface. We as an industry can barely put our pants on in the morning on the best of days, and now this.

Hopefully your C9 workspace is on a development server instead of on a production one....

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by jay-saint »

I assume they will also be changing their hosting over to AWS soon, so they can remove this bit from their features page. > VMs hosted on Google Cloud > We know that latency is important and Google knows how to deal with global availability. This is why you will get all the benefits of Googles infrastructure for free.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by 0xmohit »

hueving wrote: post #13
0xmohit wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C9 only adds to existing AWS offerings. Don't see a reason that it'd be shut down.

If it's basically an acquihire then that's exactly what happens. Remember sparrow?

The point was that C9 offerings are likely to continue. The branding might change.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Seems like a smart move by Amazon if they integrate cloud9 as a standard service.

I liked Google's web based IDE when I was a contractor there and for about a year I experimented with using nitrous.io. Right now I am experimenting with using codeanywhere pointed at my own large server instance.

It is tremendously convenient having one development environment set up that can be accessed from all of my devices. Hopefully Amazon will raise the bar.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ben_jones »

maxaf wrote: post #7
petercooper wrote: post #3

Once fully integrated with AWS, this could offer a rather exciting, low friction way to work on the platform. Using Cloud9 to build, test, and deploy Lambda functions from a single interface with all the auth stuff dealt with automatically.. you could have some powerful APIs running in the cloud very quickly. (Maybe there's even a play for getting this stuff into the hands of non-engineering employees. Build the "Exc…

The last thing this world needs is mission-critical software edited willy-nilly through a "convenient" web browser interface. We as an industry can barely put our pants on in the morning on the best of days, and now this.

He or she who has not edited production code or configurations with vim/emacs/nano cast the first stone.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ben_jones »

Secretmapper wrote: post #19

Acqui-hiring at its finest. Amazon just wants to get Surefour. In all seriousness though, I agree with the general sentiments here. I really hope C9 doesn't get shutdown, it's incredibly nifty and I've found it saving my butt a few times (quick set up for teaching new devs, working on a borrowed machine, working on university* , etc) * ports aside from 80/433 are blocked, so I couldn't push/pull reliably. I ended up…

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