Vicki Boykis Champions Local Development, Warns of "VendorOps"

Vicki Boykis argues local development is fast, efficient and controllable, saying the inability to develop locally is a DX problem to fix. She revived her 2022 critique of "VendorOps," where engineers mostly stitch together third-party services instead of doing real software engineering.

2026-08-24 ~ 2026-08-24 · 3 related posts

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