Learning objectives

• Awaken curiousity for a better way of maintaining dev environments
• Provoke us to transform our pets to cattles
• Demo CDE - ready to code from zero to fully operative
• Inspire to explore
  • Developer eXperince / Cloud Development Environment

I think the shift to the cloud will happen at such a rapid rate, that in a few years, I predict there will be no more source code on your computers.

Thomas Dohmke (2022), CEO GitHub

DevX - Developer eXperience

Developer experience refers to how easy or difficult it is for a developer to perform essential tasks needed to implement a change.

A positive developer experience would mean these tasks are relatively easy for the team.

Cloud happened

• Virtual Machines - gained momentum late 90-ties
• Transformation to Cloud computing - (AWS 2006)
• Containerisation - Docker / Kubernetes - (2014)
• Ephemeral (kortvarig) workspaces or CDEs - Now!

What is CDE

Cloud development environments are on-demand and pre-configured with all tools, libraries and dependencies required to be ready-to-code.

Cloud Development Enivronments - principles

• Ephemeral (kortvarig) over long lived
  • A fresh disposable environment for every task
• Reproducible over cobbled together
  • Consistently replicable without manual intervention
• Effortless over arduous (vanskelig)
  • With minimal friction and difficulty

Vision

Select project, check dependencies, checkout branch, view readme.txt, install tools, run build, run test, start coding.

Vision

Select project,
check dependencies, checkout branch, view readme.txt, install tools, run build, run test,
start coding.

Credits

• Street art from various artists - Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/