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Non-local development environment complexity
6/10 Medium64% of developers now use non-local cloud environments as primary setup, but this introduces coordination and debugging challenges that weren't present in local-only workflows, requiring new tooling and practices.
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Query: “What are the most common pain points with AWS for developers in 2025?”3/29/2026
local testing is often a challenge or plain impossible, you often have to do all testing on a dev account on AWS infra... fully serverless means you can't run your application locally (and getting management to pay for the pro localstack licence is a dead end)
Query: “What are the most common pain points with Docker for developers in 2025?”3/26/2026
Non-local dev environments are now the norm — not the exception. 64% of developers say they use non-local environments as their primary development setup, with local environments now accounting for only 36% of dev workflows.
Created: 3/26/2026Updated: 3/29/2026