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I see all these notebooks products and I honestly don't know how any of them plan to compete with AWS...no body wants self hosted anymore, everyone just wants t

• simonw 5y ago
  https://observablehq.com/ https://observablehq.com/ is a cloud hosted platform already. This thing - Dataflow - is an open source run-on-your-own-machine alternative to the official Observable hosted solution, taking advantage of the fact that Observable itself is JavaScript code with some special sauce that's available as open source runtime/parser libraries.
• qbasic_forever 5y ago
  It's running on localhost here and I presume that's their intended use case for this feature. Localhost is critical for development--imagine if VS code wouldn't work unless you were connected to Github.com. This is fixing that issue with observable notebooks so now you can run and develop your notebook locally without depending directly on the internet or their cloud service.
  • nautilus12 5y ago
    I'm increasingly seeing companies embrace "dont develop locally". Personally the idea of having to sign into AWS console to develop makes me cringe, but i'm seeing more people just be ok with it.
    • simonw 5y ago
      Having been responsible for the shared local development environment system at a 100+ engineer company I can tell you exactly why: the amount of time and money wasted fixing individual developer environments is astronomical. If someone's environment isn't working, having a button they can click to get a brand new working one in the cloud is an enormous time-saver.
      • nautilus12 5y ago
        I guess it's comparable to having a corporate uniform or getting to wear what you want