Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. It looks likely that in future, most development will not be done on localhost. The time wasted fixing bugs between dev and prod environments goes from 1-4 hours a week down to 0. Many Bigcos who have invested in their developer productivity already work entirely in the cloud.
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But I Need To Code on a Plane?The "Future is Just Not Evenly Distributed" ArgumentJobs to Be Done of LocalhostThe Inevitability ArgumentThe Outer vs Inner Loop ArgumentThe Potential of Edge ComputePushback: It's Still Not Good EnoughOther Notable responsesFurther Reading13 Comments
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