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I'm very interested in developer requests regarding what possible XServe-like hardware could do if it existed. Is it the UX or feature set or dev tools that wou

I'm very interested in developer requests regarding what possible XServe-like hardware could do if it existed. Is it the UX or feature set or dev tools that would be desired? Is it mainly to have something more compatible with their dev cycle? How would you set up your network? Would you like to use something like Docker on MacOS? I think you are not alone in this reasoning.

exabrial 8y ago
It's all driven by testing needs. On my webapps, I can use Selenium IDE to simulate basic user interaction to check for regressions in all features of an app, but also create realistic loading of frontend servers. There are a bunch of android tools to do the same for apps that can run in the emulator distributed on a cloud. On Desktop apps, people can use anything from MSFT Terminal Services to Citrix to pound native apps into submission. Oh man, native containers would be awesome on OSX, bonus points if we could run a full UI. And there's the economy of scale of "same tools" "same platform" for local development vs cloud deployment. Makes testing so much easier.