I rarely manage to time anything correctly for market fluctuations, but for once I hit it right on the head when I built this machine last summer.

I could totally see that for the web stuff where I only make changes a couple of times a year. Usually when working on those I just delete the local DB before I start to keep it clean, but spinning up a new copy would be more efficient.

For our desktop apps / server Postgres is always installed locally on the machine, so keeping it there mirrors “production”.

I spent most of my time working on those apps and services, or working on the Android client (or both at the same time when a feature requires that both change), and often on a copy of actual customer data as we do a lot of custom work for clients.

Why an RDBMS on the local though? Testing shit doesn’t make sense to name it as a regular piece of software.

I always build against a local DB?

For our desktop / LAN software the DB will always be local.

For web, it’s easier since I’m likely to burn the DB down over and over during early development / prototyping. But I’m not using cloud hosted DB even in production, and don’t expose Postgres outside the DB server, so I find it easier to work on this way.

EDIT: I also think that a default installation of VS includes SQL Server. I don’t use it, so always have to adjust the installation and remove all of those bits, but I also have complete control of my environment. I could see an IT department just doing a stock VS installation with the required workloads.

I build windows software, so need Windows and VS. I keep my entire development environment in a virtual machine. I also have a couple of other VMs for client isolation, clean installation testing, etc.

So having that much memory allows me to run more than one virtual machine at a time, and keep enough reserve for my actual desktop.

It was also my first rebuild in over 12 years, and RAM prices hadn’t gone stupid yet, so I figured I’d drop a few more $ and build another decade+ future proof machine.

Some of us bought our 64gb of ram when it was cheap.

My brother in law worked at the BMW plant and they weren’t supposed to have their phones on the floor at all.

I see a ton of kids wearing Nivrana shirts, but not sure if it’s actually because they know who they are, or they just like the shirt (it’s always the same shirt).