Reproducibility is one of the things we got with containers and k8s (and before that, 12-factor apps). I run k3s on my laptop with a minified stack, which is good enough to mimic nearly any behavior on prod.
Cloud-specific saas (like proprietary databases and AWS lambda) are awful for this though, and we avoid them where possible. Our S3 code was a bug farm until I discovered minio. Now we’re stuck with Snowflake because scale and speed, but the fact that I can’t iterate fast locally has caused me to lose days of my life that I’ll never get back. Hoping I can hack something together with duckdb when I get time.
Cloud-specific saas (like proprietary databases and AWS lambda) are awful for this though, and we avoid them where possible. Our S3 code was a bug farm until I discovered minio. Now we’re stuck with Snowflake because scale and speed, but the fact that I can’t iterate fast locally has caused me to lose days of my life that I’ll never get back. Hoping I can hack something together with duckdb when I get time.