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Accelerating Your Open Source Contribution Journey With Cloud Development Environments

on YouTube 37m
Talkat Open Source 101 2023 · on Thursday, 2023-03-23· [developer-experience, open-source]

speakers

name:Debosmit Debo Ray
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name:Vishal Pallerla
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/6OsQT3oimow
slides:none on file

summary

Claims concrete gains: DevZero provides templatized cloud development environments that launch a full stack including databases and debuggers in 40–50 seconds to spin up, removing local install steps and OS-specific Java/tooling. Workspaces produce shareable ephemeral links for asynchronous mentor review, let reviewers intercept live traffic to preview UI and backend changes, and cut redundant CI noise by running production-like environments for faster PR feedback and fewer environment-related failures.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:55Why Contribute Improve Software You Use Networking with like-minded individuals Build a portfolio, gain experience Give back to the community. • Find Mentors and Teach Others Empower yourself to make a difference, even with small contributions • Showcase your work publicly and use it as a career asset.
  3. 4:4697% of applications leverage open-source code 90% of companies are using it in some way • GitHub alone had 413 million open-source software (OSS) contributions in 2022 30% of Fortune 100 companies have OSPOS • 50% of first-time contributors work on
  4. 11:09Getting Started Time it Takes to Get Contributions • Compatibility Issues • Lack of resources (local resources or if project relates to cloud native) Familiarity of tools, libraries and frameworks used Inconsistent code quality and standard
  5. 15:52getting started o focus on building over underlying infra setup ⚫ for maintainers/reviewers • enforcing standards (dreaded lint failure in CI) o preview environments • maintaining diverging config (linux v mac)

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