Toma Puljak is software developer at Codeanywhere, a company that builds cloud IDE and brings Infrastructure-as-code principles to developer workspaces. I spoke with Toma about typical use cases for ephemeral workspaces, trends in the industry, how Big Tech companies solve this problem, and how Toma, after his notebook broke down, worked uninterrupted from his cell phone 🙂 Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here. Show notes: - This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #43 - Cloud development environments with Toma Puljak [Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below] (01:07) - Intro (02:53) - IaC in local development environments (11:52) - Inner loop vs outer loop (15:50) - Latency (17:11) - Flexibility (19:39) - A regular day for a developer with cloud environment (21:41) - What other organizations do? (24:20) - Are some organizations a better fit? (26:25) - What developers say? (28:58) - Advice on how to start (30:41) - Is future of development in the cloud?