Faster Ramp-Up Time For Developers
New team members don’t have to spend a week or more setting up a local LAMP stack and setting up tools like Composer, Drush, and xDebug. Within a few minutes, developers will be ready to start writing code.
Reduced Maintenance
It doesn’t matter what your Operating System is or what software versions you’re running. You don’t need to spend time installing software or troubleshooting your local machine. That’s time you could be spending on building something valuable. Less time on menial tasks means more time to focus on what matters.
Better Quality Code
We give you tools to sniff, lint, and otherwise validate your code to ensure that you are following established best practices.
Faster Performance
IDEs have one job: to provide an excellent cloud based developer environment. They’re optimized for it and other applications have no effect on it’s performance.
Ready to Debug
Setting up debugging tools is so frustrating that often developers don’t do it. Cloud IDE comes pre-configured with debugging tools allowing developers to rapidly identify and resolve bugs.
Keep it SaaS, Keep it Safe
No need to grant system/admin privileges to developers on company or personal hardware or configure network/firewall exceptions. You can keep your machine and network safe and secure.
DIY vs Cloud IDE
|
Feature
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DIY
|
Cloud IDE
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|---|---|---|
| Productivity | ||
|
Time required to be productive |
A few hours to several weeks |
5-15 minutes |
|
Optimized Drupal environment |
Manual |
|
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Optimized AWS networking |
||
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Dedicated hardware per IDE |
||
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Firewall exceptions |
Manual |
Not Needed |
|
Non-admin access sufficient |
||
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Low bandwidth requirements |
||
| Developer Tools | ||
|
Source code editor & IDE |
||
|
Git / Git UI integration |
||
|
PHP Code Sniffer |
Manual |
|
|
Composer / Composer 2 |
Manual |
|
|
Drush Launcher |
Manual |
|
|
Unlimited builds |
Manual |
|
|
Preconfigured Xdebug |
Manual |
|
|
Node.js / NPM / NVM |
Manual |
|
|
Ruby / RVM |
Manual |
|
|
Preconfigured Chromedriver |
Manual |
|
|
Built-in site preview & terminal |
||
|
Pre-installed Drupal Plugins |
||
| Security | ||
|
Environment isolation |
Manual |
|
|
Role-based access |
||
|
Automated user data sanitization |
||
|
Single sign-on |
||
|
Code, database and files synchronization |
Manual |
|
|
Prod-matched PHP configuration |
||
|
Customizable PHP & MySQL |
||
|
Acquia CLI |
Manual |
|
|
Preconfigured Drupal best practices |
Manual |
|
|
Auto-configured database connection |
Manual |
|
DIY vs Cloud IDE
|
DIY
|
Cloud IDE
|
|---|---|
| Productivity | |
|
Time required to be productive |
A few hours to several weeks |
5-15 minutes |
|
Optimized Drupal environment |
Manual |
|
Optimized AWS networking |
|
|
Dedicated hardware per IDE |
|
|
Firewall exceptions |
Manual |
Not Needed |
|
Non-admin access sufficient |
|
|
Low bandwidth requirements |
|
| Developer Tools | |
|
Source code editor & IDE |
|
|
Git / Git UI integration |
|
|
PHP Code Sniffer |
Manual |
|
Composer / Composer 2 |
Manual |
|
Drush Launcher |
Manual |
|
Unlimited builds |
Manual |
|
Preconfigured Xdebug |
Manual |
|
Node.js / NPM / NVM |
Manual |
|
Ruby / RVM |
Manual |
|
Preconfigured Chromedriver |
Manual |
|
Built-in site preview & terminal |
|
|
Pre-installed Drupal Plugins |
|
| Security | |
|
Environment isolation |
Manual |
|
Role-based access |
|
|
Automated user data sanitization |
|
|
Single sign-on |
|
|
Code, database and files synchronization |
Manual |
|
Prod-matched PHP configuration |
|
|
Customizable PHP & MySQL |
|
|
Acquia CLI |
Manual |
|
Preconfigured Drupal best practices |
Manual |
|
Auto-configured database connection |
Manual |