Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
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Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#2Very curious how, or if, this helps or affects non-developers also working in the monorepo, like tech writers, QA, UX/UI/visual designers, training/enablement, support, etc.
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#3This sounds awesome, but not practical for smaller companies. The cloud costs must be significant? "Faster Git, Build, and IDE experience by utilizing beefy cloud resources–up to 48 cores and 96 GB of RAM per environment"
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#4This sounds awesome, but not practical for smaller companies. The cloud costs must be significant? "Faster Git, Build, and IDE experience by utilizing beefy cloud resources–up to 48 cores and 96 GB of RAM per environment"
Why would it need to be per user? An environment of that size could easily support many users. Developers spend most of their time just staring and only intermittently need to build. There is no particular reason why everyone would be building at once. Most of the time you'll get all those cores to yourself even though there could be dozens of devs sharing the box.
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#5This sounds awesome, but not practical for smaller companies. The cloud costs must be significant? "Faster Git, Build, and IDE experience by utilizing beefy cloud resources–up to 48 cores and 96 GB of RAM per environment"
Why would it need to be per user? An environment of that size could easily support many users. Developers spend most of their time just staring and only intermittently need to build. There is no particular reason why everyone would be building at once. Most of the time you'll get all those cores to yourself even though there could be dozens of devs sharing the box.
We’re coming around full circle to the old days of thin client terminals to a beefy mainframe under the corporation’s control. Only it’s hosted in the cloud and all your data is at risk.
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
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Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#7Most developers in Uber use local builds anyway because of input lag. Dev pods were mostly good to prevent laptop from working at 100% fan volume at all times though.
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#8This sounds awesome, but not practical for smaller companies. The cloud costs must be significant? "Faster Git, Build, and IDE experience by utilizing beefy cloud resources–up to 48 cores and 96 GB of RAM per environment"
Why would it need to be per user? An environment of that size could easily support many users. Developers spend most of their time just staring and only intermittently need to build. There is no particular reason why everyone would be building at once. Most of the time you'll get all those cores to yourself even though there could be dozens of devs sharing the box.
Also, smaller company can probably go a long way just on codespaces. If GitHub can, 99% of projects out there likely can too.
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#9Most developers in Uber use local builds anyway because of input lag. Dev pods were mostly good to prevent laptop from working at 100% fan volume at all times though.
input lag like when typing? I use remote env on vscode and afaik it’s locally editing and syncing after the fact for lint, compilation etc
Re: Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
#10We already have something like this at Meta for improving developer experience. All our dev environments are remote