January 30, 2023

Hybrid Development Environments

Writing, building, and testing software locally can be painful, especially as a codebase becomes more complex. Remote environments, however, don’t offer a silver bullet: they introduce latency, increase cost, and add dependencies on cloud availability. A hybrid approach — where some development tasks happen locally and others are offloaded to remote environments — can give teams the best of both worlds.

Writing code on a laptop that is different from production means we’re handicapped more. When we do a code review of the proposed changes, we have no way to verify if this thing will actually work. We depend on CI to get that extra bit of confidence, but even CI operates a tad bit differently from production.

Adding salt to the wound, many of these test environments are shared tenancy – we run some tests but they seem to be producing a weird error when I didn’t even touch that part of the code! Oh wait - Sally is testing out a new database schema while Harry is testing changes in another handler of my micro-service. Enough is enough!

Today’s tooling and workflows are holding us back. At DevZero we believe that a combination of local tools paired with remote compute will give the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to accelerating developer productivity.

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Funding

Hatchfi, a crypto integration platform that enables developers to connect to users’ crypto accounts, raised $1.2m in pre-Seed funding.

Argilla, an open-source platform for building and improving datasets for NLP projects, raised $1.6m in Seed funding.

Calimero, a startup building infrastructure management for private shards for blockchain apps, raised $8.5m in Seed funding.

DevZero, a cloud development platform that helps developers write and test code using remote environments, raised $21m in Series A funding.

AtomicJar, creator of Testcontainers, an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, and more, raised $25m in Series A funding.

Memfault, an IoT reliability platform that helps with remote debugging, OTA updates, and device monitoring for IoT devices, raised $24m in Series B funding.

Crowdbotics, a tool for building new apps using reusable modules and code, raised $40m in Series B.

QuickNode, a suite of blockchain APIs and analytics for building blockchain apps, raised $60m in Series B funding.

Snyk, a tool for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, and containers, raised $25m in strategic funding.