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Ask HN: What is your company's approach to development environments?

by nchudleigh on 2/10/23, 8:41 PM with 1 comments

We have been investigating various approaches to improving the development environments for engineers. These include:

1. Run directly on work machines 2. Run dev containers locally with VSCode 3. Run a cloud environment similar to staging/production

We have python 3 services (each with APIs and Task workers) with postgres, redis and a few other dependencies. We are around 60 in the engineering org.

Curious what other companies around this level of complexity have found works well for their teams.

  • by yuppie_scum on 2/10/23, 11:21 PM

    Docker Compose is the easy answer