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The image features the text "Four Opportunity Costs of Building vs. Buying Software for Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design highlights a discussion or analysis of the trade-offs between building custom software versus purchasing existing solutions for development purposes, with a focus on the associated opportunity costs.The image features the text "Four Opportunity Costs of Building vs. Buying Software for Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design highlights a discussion or analysis of the trade-offs between building custom software versus purchasing existing solutions for development purposes, with a focus on the associated opportunity costs.

Four Opportunity Costs of Building vs. Buying Software for Development

At first glance, creating an internal cloud development experience platform may appear to be a sage business choice. Hey, a custom solution allows teams...

March 23, 2023
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The image features the text "5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests a focus on the importance of maintaining a positive developer experience, likely offering insights or reasons why this should be a priority within development teams or organizations.The image features the text "5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests a focus on the importance of maintaining a positive developer experience, likely offering insights or reasons why this should be a priority within development teams or organizations.

5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience

5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience Is building and maintaining an internal development platform negatively impacting developer happiness...

March 23, 2023
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The image features the text "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Building Versus Buying Software for Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design focuses on analyzing the total cost of ownership when deciding between building custom software or purchasing existing software solutions for development purposes.The image features the text "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Building Versus Buying Software for Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design focuses on analyzing the total cost of ownership when deciding between building custom software or purchasing existing software solutions for development purposes.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Building Versus Buying Software for Development

5 Maintenance Requirements of In-house Software Development Building an in-house development platform can provide several benefits, such as customizability,...

March 23, 2023
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The image features the text "5 Technical Challenges of Building Software for Modern Cloud Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design highlights the key technical challenges developers face when building software for cloud-based environments, likely providing insights or strategies to address these challenges within the context of modern cloud development.The image features the text "5 Technical Challenges of Building Software for Modern Cloud Development" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is positioned at the bottom right. The design highlights the key technical challenges developers face when building software for cloud-based environments, likely providing insights or strategies to address these challenges within the context of modern cloud development.

5 Technical Challenges of Building Software for Modern Cloud Development

While developing a purpose-built in-house development environment may appear like an obvious way to address specific development challenges, the introduction...

March 20, 2023
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The Build vs. Buy Software Guide to Development Platforms

Top Ten List of Considerations When Debating to Build or Buy a Dev Platform To build or not to build? Ah, that is the Shakespearean question when it comes...

February 06, 2023
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Building a Dev Platform Is Easy - Maintaining it is Hard

To build or not to build? Ah, that is the question when it comes to software. Many development teams debate this dilemma. It's a tricky quandary when the...

January 30, 2023
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5 Internal Software Development Platform Challenges

Some of the smartest engineering and DevOps managers sometimes make the mistake of treating a new software initiative as a single, well-defined one-off...

January 23, 2023
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The Cost and Complications of In-House Development Environments

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson. The importance of tools that boost a positive developer experience can't be overstated....

January 19, 2023
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Cloud-Based Kubernetes Dev Environments Simplify How Developers Use Kubernetes

Kubernetes has made deploying modern cloud-native applications relatively easy. For instance, Kubernetes enables organizations to provision containerized...

August 04, 2022
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A Fly Fisherman Returns From the Wild to Develop in the Cloud

Bradley has been in the coding game since 1997 when he started bravenet.com, which he ran until 2003. The site featured simple pre-Facebook tools, such as guest books, message boards, and classified ads. At the height of success, Bravenet.com was the second largest website in Canada and 50th largest website in the world....

June 14, 2022
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Making Sense of Cloud Development in a Complicated Kubernetes World

Burr Sutter has been developing applications for 30 years. He started with ChUI (green screen, amber screen, DOS) applications in the early 90s. Since then, he’s rode the wave of every innovation through Windows GUI apps, client-server, dynamic web apps, SOA, ESBs, enterprise integration patterns, AJAX, and mobile apps. ...

June 07, 2022
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Mastering the Game of Cloud Development

Jeevanjot caught the coding bug - pardon the pun - at a young age. At 14, he started working with Visual Basic, doing game development and graphic design before jumping into full-stack web development....

May 31, 2022
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Discover How Mirroring Dev and Production Environments Improves Cloud Migration

Cloud computing has changed the world in which we live. Slack, Box, and Salesforce are just a few business applications that have made our lives easier...

May 18, 2022
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DevOps Renaissance Man Offers Sage Advice from the Frontlines

Clement Chang knows how to hold court. He speaks eloquently and moves fluidly from topic to topic, speaking with nights on ideas ranging from technology to psychology to global politics. With sector interests that include web 3.0, precision medicine, and AI, Clement eventually settled on a career in DevOps. ...

May 10, 2022
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Development Lessons from a Lover of Latin Jazz

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi has been writing code since 2003. The release of Docker in 2013 transformed his life as a software developer and he soon began using Docker Compose for development. Eventually, he turned to Kubernetes to have the same comfort and control in the production servers. ...

May 03, 2022
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Developing at the Speed of Kubernetes

Natan Yellin is the founder of robusta.dev and has developed software for over a decade. He started with open source in high school, got started on Kubernetes while at Alcide.io (now part of Rapid7), and launched his own company late last year....

April 26, 2022
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