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Everyone _should_ also have 100% test coverage, canary deployments, and local dev parity. Unfortunately, the real world gets in the way and means we don’t all w

Everyone _should_ also have 100% test coverage, canary deployments, and local dev parity. Unfortunately, the real world gets in the way and means we don’t all work with optimal setups.

pjmlp 4y ago
In that case, it starts by having a local environment that matches the OS of the servers. Linux OEM vendors will appreciate it.
- geraldwhen 4y ago
  You’re running graviton arm locally? It’s all docker containers in the end, so that’s what you get.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    No, and why should I? I got into UNIX development back when the whole team shared a development server and we used telnet and X Windows for our "IDE". No one was running SPARC, RISC System/6000, PA-RISC, MIPS, Eclipse MV locally. When everyone keeps worshipping UNIX, maybe it is time to learn how grey beards used to develop for it.
    - jen20 4y ago
      > it starts by having a local environment that matches the OS of the servers > No, and why should I? These two statements are in direct conflict. CPU architecture is as much part of “matching the server” as operating system. When I built software for SPARC, I was also running SPARC locally…
    - tptacek 4y ago
      That's how I came up too. It sucked. It's good that it's being forgotten.