Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
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Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#2Writing on Medium tames readership by requiring accounts of readers.
The essay is probably interesting, but I'll never know.
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#3Writing on Medium tames readership by requiring accounts of readers. The essay is probably interesting, but I'll never know.
Between deleting cookies and disabling JavaScript, you can have unfettered access to most news sites (and medium)
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#4Writing on Medium tames readership by requiring accounts of readers. The essay is probably interesting, but I'll never know.
Using Brave I am somehow able to read it without being blocked. I assume it's blocking cookies/tracking, but that's an option.
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#5TL;DR Use cloud based development environments to avoid machine (developer) specific, non reproducible problems, and increase productivity (speculatively)
Probably ok for certain needs, but not something I would use. My productivity comes from a localised and personalised setup. Issues with the local or remote environments IMHO, indicate a problems that
1) others may also encounter.
2) should at least, if possible be understood/ documented.
3) represent opportunities for greater understanding of the environments in question (assuming you have time to dig).
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#6I agree and it's why I personally invest so much time with things like Nix.
Nix offers a solution to being able to do a "cloud development environment", but on your local computer. It also allows you to easily setup the cloud development environment if you need one. While Docker works for setting up a new instance in a cloud provider, on a mac is a major pain so I don't really see it as a proper solution to the things Nix does for me.
But I can't help shake the feeling that Nix and Docker are just the best we have for now. I think the real solution to this involves far more changes before it's not just a pile of hacks. Eventually things will get bad enough that something will appear and it'll be adopted.
I don't think a VM per developer is the final version of this idea.
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#7TL;DR Use cloud based development environments to avoid machine (developer) specific, non reproducible problems, and increase productivity (speculatively) Probably ok for certain needs, but not something I would use. My productivity comes from a localised and personalised setup. Issues with the local or remote environments IMHO, indicate a problems that 1) others may also encounter. 2) should at least, if possible be…
Isn't that what the promise of Docker was, you can distribute the docker image and everyone is running and building the same thing?
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#8Writing on Medium tames readership by requiring accounts of readers. The essay is probably interesting, but I'll never know.
google "github bypass paywall"
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#9Writing on Medium tames readership by requiring accounts of readers. The essay is probably interesting, but I'll never know.
No account is required to read this, did you try?
I opened it with an incognito window, no problem.
I opened it with a logged in window, no problem.
Some authors try to monetize their posts. Not this one.
I'd love to know if your experience was somehow different.
Re: Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state
#10Eh more like they shift managing the state to cloud providers.
Someone has to bootstrap a DC of machines before you can run that containerized business logic.
All the old barnacles are there it’s just hidden behind the wizards curtain.