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Cultivating Your Local Garden: Create Seedlings with Dev Containers and Devbox

Cultivating Your Local Garden: Create Seedlings with Dev Containers and Devbox

Background

I've been planting development environments for over a decade, and like choosing between heirloom or hybrid seeds.

Goals

It's all about consistency, reproducibility, and avoiding dependency hell. We want to create a consistent, reproducible local development environment that works the same for everyone on the team, regardless of their local machine's quirks.

Preparing the Soil: Why Dev Containers and Devbox Matter

Today we're going to plant a seedling in our local garden. We'll start with the soil preparation - creating consistent, reproducible local development environments with Dev Containers and Devbox. Then we'll plant a simple Go application, before we move on to cultivating a full Kubernetes ecosystem with ArgoCD.

Platform Engineers NYC: Introducing Canyon: The AI for developer self-service

I attended a meetup with Sylvain Kalache and Kaspar Von Grünberg. It was a wide-ranging and forward-thinking discussion primarily around AI. The conversation oscillated between speakers ranging from skepticism and adoption to tips on avoiding hallucinations, eventually touching on Humanitec's Canyon[1] progress bringing AI in platform engineering and Rootly AI Labs'[2] Root Cause Analysis, and more.

It was all fascinating but I was hung up on the Machine Conversation Protocol (MCP) and its new complementary Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A). I was supposed to continue with my seminal work today... Nerd Snipe confirmed. Plus, who doesn't love a new standard?

DevOps with the App Code: The Final Boss

What is DevOps?

I've been practicing "DevOps" for 12 years and I have my opinions but like the controversial GIF pronunciation...

Hot Take

It's pronounced GIF! Fight me!

I feel its important to include the originators of the term DevOps -- most notably Patrick Debois -- to see what is said about it.

I found this interview with Mr. Debois to be succinct. And in true tl;dr; fashion -- (what isn't tl;dr; these days since the creation of Musical.ly? 🎵 (What's Musical.ly? it's pronounced TikTok)) -- I've asked Claude to "Pull out the keys, mode of concepts, and threads of the interview."

And what did Claude gleam?