Microsoft’s new Dev Box is a developer workstation in the cloud

It is impossible to ignore the trend that the software we develop is getting more and more complex. It will take longer and longer for an engineer to set up the local dev environment until it is almost impossible for a new hired engineer to do so. More importantly, once you reach a complexity scale, even the most high-end macbook pro cannot run the software we develop locally anymore.

At Nimbus, we are simply following and accelerating that trend with our cloud-based dev environment solution. I deeply believe that within 3-5 years, it will be a more common to develop on a cloud-based dev environment than on our laptops.