Re:Show HN: Layer – Get a dozen staging servers per developer
by zimpenfish on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:54PM
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> Most companies I've worked at have software engineers putzing around for the few days/weeks getting their dev environment set up.
I'll second this as a real pain point. And I would absolutely love to be able to spin up a staging/test environment for myself[1] when needed instead of having to wait for someone else to refresh staging and not knowing what precise combination of commits are on there.
[1] I'm new and on a Mac, everyone else is here years and on Linux; my local dev experience has been somewhat challenging as a result due to their assumptions.
I'll second this as a real pain point. And I would absolutely love to be able to spin up a staging/test environment for myself[1] when needed instead of having to wait for someone else to refresh staging and not knowing what precise combination of commits are on there.
[1] I'm new and on a Mac, everyone else is here years and on Linux; my local dev experience has been somewhat challenging as a result due to their assumptions.