Companies like Netflix with bigger market caps are still on AWS.
I can imagine the productivity of spinning up elastic cloud resources vs fixed data center resourcing being more important, especially considering how frequently a company like Figma ships new features.
A bit of an aside, I'm a big fan of how Mike Perham managed to start a business around Sidekiq. I think it really gives us Hacker News folks that there's hope starting a viable bootstrapped business around open-source infrastructure.
The idea is going into the right direction but i would also love to see a skyrocketing price for a second car per household.
So if i need a car and my wife as well, i would encourage to make the second car around four times as expensive. Also I don't like the weight and size that much cause a functional vehicle like a minivan or pickups or vans used for work reasons shouldn't be punished.
A combination out of HP, weight and a functionality factor (roomy family friendly cars and pure or mainly used working vehicles vs big luxury SUVs or small overpowered sports cars) would be a adequate calculation.
Also motorbikes would need an adjustment in that level. Nobody can tell me they need a 120hs motorbike for a proper commute. They are just noise pollution.
One area which an external monitor (or high resolution) helps a lot with is UI or frontend programming. It's a huge pain to play with the chrome or Firefox debugger and have to jump between windows to get feedback.
When it comes to backend or non-UI work, a laptop is just fine.
Testing in production will trend upwards among companies because everybody's workload is shifting towards the cloud and/or making use of external SaaS services. There are a number of cloud services that are not open source that can't be run locally, or run at the same scale as production.
It is not a good use of time to mock everything, because you have no control of external systems. The only reason I'd see it being important is if these external systems are tightly coupled to complex local logic that should be tested locally. However, there are a number of strategies to deal with such "tight coupling" in such cases.
This is an even more effective strategy given the Japanese culture of constantly rebuilding housing [1]. It does beg the question of how sustainable that practice itself weighed against the benefits of solar installation.
I can imagine the productivity of spinning up elastic cloud resources vs fixed data center resourcing being more important, especially considering how frequently a company like Figma ships new features.