Re:Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for t...
by nithayakumar on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @02:55PM
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Facebook definitely does it. Thats where we first learned about this way of working. Some bigger tech companies have actually written about it (see links below) but a list of ones that we've seen with this kind of infra include LinkedIn, Shopify, Dropbox, Stripe, Slack, DataDog, and Palantir - to name a few.
Eng blog links:
LinkedIn: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2021/building-in-the-c...
Shopify: https://shopify.engineering/modelling-developer-infrastructu...
Slack: https://slack.engineering/development-environments-at-slack/
Doximity: https://technology.doximity.com/articles/github-codespaces-i...
They have traction _especially_ in larger organisations imo.
afaik at least Google and Amazon rely on remote development where your laptop is just a terminal to some remote machine. Not sure about other BigTech but maybe others can comment.