Standardizing Dev Environments for Collaboration

The trend of tech companies building their own development environments has led to a need for standardization across industries, driven by customer demand and the challenges faced by developers such as scalability, productivity, and security. Cloud-based development environments address these issues more effectively than on-prem solutions like VDI or Citrix, providing benefits like instant preview environments for marketing and enabling collaboration among developers. Standardization can be challenging but having a non-opinionated standard way of defining development environments allows flexibility and efficiency. Companies should consider a flexible approach that allows for both local and cloud-based environments, using infrastructure as code to ensure consistency across teams, and utilizing AI to help with the standardization process.