Local development is fast and controllable, why rely solely on the cloud?
vboykis · x · 2026-08-24
Vicki Boykis praises local development for being good, fast, and offering the most control. She notes that we have already given up control with the cloud (e.g., developing against Bigtable or S3) and questions why we want to keep giving more of it up.
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