Cloud development machines are great—-secure, consistent, etc.—-right up until you have a cloud outage and your entire team’s productivity goes to zero. That’s

Cloud development machines are great—-secure, consistent, etc.—-right up until you have a cloud outage and your entire team’s productivity goes to zero. That’s “zero productivity” as in an elementary school snow day. Even when Github has gone down for hours, I’ve still managed to do code reviews with good old-fashioned `git format-patch` in chat.