liushh

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by liushh 8mo ago
haha ~ I see my past self playing with this fulltime haha. great work!
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by liushh 4y ago
Co-founder of Nimbus here ( https://www.usenimbus.com/ ) We also provide a remote dev environment solutions. I think in your use case is very special as you cannot leverage any cloud providers, which can potentially make it h
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by liushh 4y ago
Great work guys! Looking forward to integrating with JumpWire!
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by liushh 4y ago
I think you are right :) with a great dev infra and policy setup and proper enforcement, docker can be a great solution of environment consistency/standardization. One use case I forgot to mention and I want to share. In some scenarios
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by liushh 4y ago
Liusha from Nimbus here. >I'd love to look again once virtual MFA or hardware MFA is supported. MFA is not far. We have already started to work on MFA across our solution. I will ping you as soon as we have it ready for you. Actuall
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by liushh 4y ago
haha I want to be clear. I meant you can define your environment however you like in terms of flexibility. You can have 27 different repos with 2 k8s clusters with other integrations you like in an environment. Nimbus can achieve exactly th
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by liushh 4y ago
I can say for Meta/Facebook, Shopify, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Doximity...
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by liushh 4y ago
Liusha from Nimbus here. Actually the larger the organizations the more necessary a cloud-based dev environment solution. That is why all the tech giants have a solution internally like Nimbus and all organizations with more than 500 engine
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by liushh 4y ago
Great question! (Also a tough one) I have been using Nimbus on my flights and it works well. Of course depends on your geolocation, the latency can be higher than normal but the internet speed should not be a blocker because all the intense
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by liushh 4y ago
Do you mean having a MacOS on a cloud machine?
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by liushh 4y ago
self-host is definitely on our roadmap. For the first step, at least we want to deploy the EC2s in your own cloud rather than Nimbus's cloud.
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by liushh 4y ago
Nimbus is now compatible with JB Gateway actually even though we don't have an official JB plugin, which we are actively working on already! Feel free to check out our doc about how to set it up here: https://www.notion.so&#
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by liushh 4y ago
+1 on "You could run DevSpace on top of Nimbus"
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by liushh 4y ago
> How does that work from the IDE's perspective? We have been adding different IDE integrations into our solution so that a user would not even feel they are coding on a remote environment. We support a very smooth VSCode experience
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by liushh 4y ago
There are definitely more alternatives in the market now. But I do see the differentiation pretty clear (maybe because I am building it) Actually I think you are pointing out some great categories for differentiation, simpler config, faster
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by liushh 4y ago
As a Codespaces competitor, glad to see a Codespaces user giving us some attention. Love to see how you like Nimbus and how you feel the difference between different alternatives.
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Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams
96 points by liushh 4y ago|94 comments
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by liushh 4y ago
At Nimbus, our solution for individuals will be released very soon. I am happy to get you on a free trial even before the release if you are interested.
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by liushh 4y ago
As someone who is building a cloud-based dev environment solution, to be honest, I am really thrilled to see tech giants making such big splashes. It is impossible to ignore the trend that the software we develop is getting more and more co
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by liushh 4y ago
Great article. I learned something new today! I am using M1 Mac pro and I do code on Ubuntu but I took a very different approach. I have been using cloud-based dev environments based on AWS (potentially any cloud provider). Different from a