The rise of cloud-native architectures has brought new opportunities for development teams to create complex and scalable applications. However, it also comes with challenges such as a disconnect between developers' code and its performance in the actual deployment environment, slowing down development velocity and burdening DevOps with trivial tasks. To address these challenges, a shift-left approach is necessary, which involves bringing quality control principles earlier in the software development process. Comprehensive Dev Environment Orchestration & Management platforms like Daytona can play a crucial role in this shift by automating and standardizing software development workflows, empowering individual developers to take control of their personal development environment, and providing a standardized development environment that enables collaboration and reduces errors. By adopting such platforms, development teams can increase productivity, improve quality, and deliver high-quality products faster with less effort.