Developers wait forty minutes for a local environment that still does not match production. Do you move development to the cloud?

Forty minutes is a symptom with at least four different causes, and three of them are cheaper to fix than moving everyone's development to a remote machine.

Updated Oct 2026 · Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.