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"Can you actually run your software on your laptop?" has become one of my interview questions for that reason. I think a lot of dev shops just genuinely don't
by mrkeen 3y ago
"Can you actually run your software on your laptop?" has become one of my interview questions for that reason.
I think a lot of dev shops just genuinely don't realise it can be done.
I've never been in a startup right at the beginning, but I don't understand how a stack would ever be allowed to transition away from being locally-runnable.
- xxpor 3y agoJust start writing firmware.
- swader999 3y agoThat's a good question to ask. I've always assumed nobody would ever develop without local. Been lucky I guess.
- physicles 3y agoAs soon as you choose to use any SaaS that doesn’t have a local equivalent, it’s over. We were fine until we started using Snowflake. The SQL doesn’t quite transpile to Postgres, and anyway we’re using some Python functions where the equivalent SQL would be nightmarishly complicated. I hate that we can’t iterate fast on that part of the stack. Could we build something that works nearly identically, but locally? Yes, but we’d need to submit some patches to sqlglot, which nobody has time for. Could we avoid using Snowflake altogether? Only with a lot more work. It solves a few real problems for us.