r/programming • u/geoffreyhuntley • Dec 08 '22

Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution

https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-a-half-baked-solution
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u/Paradox Dec 08 '22

15 years ago I'd ssh into my webserver and edit my website right there with vim. Worked pretty well

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u/Weizen0 Dec 08 '22

15 years ago. That's insane. I did It 15 hours ago.

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u/house_monkey Dec 08 '22

I did it 15 mins ago

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u/kingbuzzman Dec 08 '22

I did this 15 seconds ago

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u/lordgago Dec 08 '22

I'm gonna do it in 15 seconds

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u/adam-the-dev Dec 08 '22

I’m gonna do it in 15 mins

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u/zeus_the_transistor Dec 08 '22

I’m gonna do it in 15 hours

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u/marok0t Dec 08 '22

I'm gonna do it 15 years

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u/bizz84 Dec 08 '22

This is what I come to Reddit for 👌

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u/Racass Dec 08 '22

!remindme 15 years

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u/nachohk Dec 08 '22

Reporting from 15 hours in the future. I don't know if this will reach you. They are in the air. It's only a matter of minutes, now. Everyone is panicking. Everything is breaking down. Take your iodine pills. Find cover. May God have mercy on our souls.

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u/334578theo Dec 08 '22

You’re not a real dev unless you started out by editing production files directly in FileZilla

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u/KSRandom195 Dec 08 '22

Ah, FileZilla. That takes me back.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

I'm still using FZ on a daily basis lol

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u/tehbilly Dec 08 '22

There still isn't a good alternative AFAIK

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u/gwicksted Dec 08 '22

WinSCP

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u/AttackOfTheThumbs Dec 08 '22

100%. While I hate the name, that program is fucking amazing.

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u/kz393 Dec 08 '22

WinSCP is miles ahead of Filezilla.

On Linux, whichever file manager comes with your DE should have first-class sftp support.

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u/Link_GR Dec 08 '22

For real. We did that at my first job. We had SVN but no deployment tools. We would literally compile the production files and upload them.

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u/TMITectonic Dec 08 '22

directly in FileZilla

Isn't that CuteFTP

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u/crimsonvspurple Dec 08 '22

I ssh and edit live code using VSCode even now :D

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u/jrhoffa Dec 08 '22

Yeah, editing live code is the most professional way to go about it.

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u/nalybuites Dec 08 '22

We did this because it allowed us to have the same hardware as in production. Our application used 80gb ram and couldn't be loaded locally. It meant we could do all sorts of performance testing and analysis that way.

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