[twodave]

Depending on the requirements of your job—-just a single VS instance with chrome, postman and slack open takes around 5GB. Teams adds another GB or so. The rest probably another 2GB (SSMS and the like).

On my particular team we also run a dockerfile that includes elastic search, sql server, rabbitmq and consul—-I had to upgrade my work laptop from 16GB to 24GB to make it livable.

[aNoob7000]

Wouldn't you just have all the heavy stuff on a server? I don't understand the goal of running something like sql server and other server type apps on a desktop/laptop.

[twodave]

Having a local environment speeds up development significantly.

[leesalminen]

When I’m developing I don’t want any network dependency. I love coding with no WiFi on planes, or on a mountain, etc.

[kaba0]

If you are on linux, try out zram.