^ yeah the way I think about it is the decision is pretty simple 1. If you want to run everything locally, you have to pick open source tools that can be scaled down into a container (RMQ, Redis, Postgres, etc) 2. If you want to take advantage of very purpose built closed source managed services (sqs, eventbus, snowflake, etc) you need to develop in the cloud (and find a way to make that smooth) With #1 I actually think local development sucks. You have to use something like docker-compose to bring stuff up, stuff never works right across different os's people have, there's .env files you need to pass around. And I also think it's weird to decide what you're using in prod based on how you want to develop things With #2 there are rough edges but it was a lot worse even a year ago so things are improving quickly

Have you ever wondered if it makes sense to do what

sst

does but with [cdk8s](https://cdk8s.io/) ? 😄