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$8 a month/user for the speed and productivity improvement seems, err, shortsighted.
by _joel 2y ago
$8 a month/user for the speed and productivity improvement seems, err, shortsighted.
- talldayo 2y agoOn the flip side, I empathize with the employer wondering why their "developer laptop" needs a monthly subscription to do what their Production server does for free. Maybe they should just use UTM in the meantime.
- _joel 2y agoI'm not sure what you mean by prod server in this context, we deploy to k8s. We use testcontainers[1] that run locally on the laptop via IntelliJ. There's a bunch of integration tests that take a good while to boot via docker-desktop. If these tests can be sped up significantly then it's worth that $8 a month. I'd like to remind you that technically docker desktop isn't free, either. Nor is pushing tests to run via CI/CD first. That iteration cycle would take even longer. [1] https://testcontainers.com/ https://testcontainers.com/