[dpiers]

Long before devpods (circa 2014) we had boxer, which was a command line tool that abstracted away the nitty gritty details of setting up a dev environment by orchestrating calls to AWS, vagrant, puppet, rsync, etc for you. However this was also a time when there were only a handful of services you would need to run, and because remote editing tools at the time weren’t as nice as they are now, it only worked really well if your preferred editor was vim/emacs so you didn’t have to deal with the (occasionally buggy) remote file syncing.

The devpod flow is a lot smoother. I had my laptop replaced recently and was up it running again in an amount of time that felt like cheating.