Ask HN: Any suggestions about moving to cloud for software development?

2 points by mahdix 8 years ago | 1 comment

Hi,

I want to buy a new laptop (Mostly for Java/Docker/K8s based development) and there are two approaches:

1. Buy a powerful laptop with lots of RAM suitable for any kind of development. 2. Buy a laptop with moderate RAM/CPU and do the heavy development parts on the cloud on a VPS (DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, ...).

Has anyone tried the second approach? What are the drawbacks (other than the need for a stable and high-speed internet)?

xirconias 8 years ago |

what about bills when using cloud. i'm also looking for a decent laptop for k8s and java dev