Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like?

Posted by rpug on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @11:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We're trying to provide the best dev environment possible to allow our developers to be most productive.

A developer's lone MacBook Pro can only go so far, so we want to supplement it with extra resources.

We're a Java and Tomcat shop.

Looking to see what other people are doing.. we're too big for the Amazon cloud. Should we give everyone their own developer workstation, or virtualize.. or... ???

Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like? by pbreit on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @01:50AM (#2866946)

First, one of the best things you can do is let each developer choose their machines and give them a generous budget. Not only will that likely lead to the most productivity but it also puts the employee control as well as discourages complaints.

I don't have Java/Tomcat experience but have yet to run into a situation where a MacBook Pro was an inadequate development machine. I also don't understand "we're too big for Amazon".

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Re:Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like? by mcrider on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @01:33AM (#2866899)

Whatever they'll do their best work on! Our organization doesn't provide computers (its not really a company, its a semi-non-profit entity and all the employees are contractors), but we use Mac, Windows, and Linux and a variety of environments within. Especially if you're a Java shop, OS doesn't really matter.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like? by james_ladd on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @11:57PM (#2866683)

What did the developers IN your environment say?

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Re:Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like? by rpug on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:02PM (#2870904)

The developers want something that works.. and is fast. No waiting for builds!

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Re:Ask HN: What's your company's dev environment like? by james_ladd on Friday August 12, 2011 @01:07AM (#2876065)

Are the machines the fastest you can afford?

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