{"id":415,"date":"2011-10-11T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:12:40","slug":"why-shared-development-environments-are-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/why-shared-development-environments-are-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why shared development environments are a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You only need to administrate a single box.<\/li>\n<li>You can buy a big server, and users can take advantage of this for sporadic compute intensive jobs like compiling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disadvantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It introduces a single point of failure, if the server goes offline no one can work.<\/li>\n<li>Users don&#8217;t have the freedom to use there own software. Users can&#8217;t always select the version of a tool they need.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t scale. As more users are added you need a bigger and bigger server. Eventually you need to add more servers (so why not just give each developer a desktop?).<\/li>\n<li>When a user deletes a file the whole server needs to be taken offline (yes this happened).<\/li>\n<li>Users developing software that needs access to a system resource (e.g. a web server running on port 80) may not be able to get exclusive access to that resource.<\/li>\n<li>Performance analysis becomes more problematic when other software is performing IO\/memory access etc.. It&#8217;s not possible to isolate this on a shared system.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a tool which requires root, it becomes a security risk to give users access to that tool.<\/li>\n<li>If a user is taxing the system they can slow down other users tasks (particularly in the case of IO intensive work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages: You only need to administrate a single box. You can buy a big server, and users can take advantage of this for sporadic compute intensive jobs like compiling. Disadvantages: It introduces a single point of failure, if the server goes offline no one can work. Users don&#8217;t have the freedom to use there own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-6H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}