Swift Roundup #10: Infrastructure as a Template

What do Google's new project, IDX, and IaaT (Infrastructure as a Template) have in common? They will both significantly improve your Developer Experience (DevEx).

Shaked Braimok Yosef
August 15, 2023

🏗️ IaaT: Infrastructure as a Template

In the era of platform engineering, the focus is no longer on the maintenance and ongoing work of developers’ infrastructure by DevOps/SRE engineers. Instead, the aim is to produce infrastructure templates that developers can readily utilize — templates that are accessible, easy to maintain, and modifiable.

IaaT: Infrastructure as a Template

To enhance the speed and quality of the development process, it’s crucial to grant developers substantial independence and avoid…

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🎞️ Google Announces Project IDX

🔗 IDX by Google

IDX is based on VSCode. The vision is full fidelity local environment with AI smarts. e.g. you get quicker starting points for apps using a popular framework, a Linux-based VM in a datacenter near you, quick deploys to Firebase Hosting and (soon) Android + iOS simulators in-browser.

Project IDX

Project IDX is an entirely web-based workspace for full-stack application development, complete with the latest generative AI (powered by Codey and PaLM 2), and full-fidelity app previews, powered by cloud emulators.

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