Laptop Vs. Cloud: Two Leading Software Engineers Assess Where Developers Will Choose To Work
siliconANGLE, Wednesday, November 8,2023
Could the laptop soon replace the cloud as the preferred development environment for enterprise coders?
That possibility was set forth by software engineer and developer advocate Kelsey Hightower in a late October post that has received nearly 700,000 views to date and sparked a spirited online debate. Hightower's comment noted that faster, more powerful processors could lead to more value for development on local machines.
'You can just see the benchmarks going up and up . faster, more cores, GPUs locally,' Hightower (pictured, left), said in an appearance on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio. 'I said if hardware continues at this trajectory, remote dev environments are going to be less appealing to developers. I want that fancy database on my desktop where I'm actually writing my code.'