Development Environments in the Cloud

1. Cloud IDEs
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2. Desktop IDE - Local Environment - Problems
Firewall
PROXY
Updates
Admin
Rights Hung
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127.0.0.1Anti-virus

3. Having your code in the cloud makes it easier to
● access - from anywhere or any computer
● collaborate - live collaboration from
anywhere
● maintain - somebody else's problem
+ All work is synced + backed up
(not ready to commit files, terminal history, undo history)

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5. Cloud9 provides a development environment
in the cloud that allows developers to get
started with coding immediately and
collaborate with their peers.
Codenvy makes development more agile by
providing workspaces that are on-demand,
collaborative and constraint-free.
Codeanywhere is a collaboration platform for
developers. Enabling them to share their files,
folders or entire development environments to
collaborate together in real-time.
What are the best Cloud IDEs?
https://www.slant.co/topics/713/~best-cloud-ides

6. Koding is a development environment automation platform.
Online-IDE pre-supposes that you have a browser-IDE and a small
container to write code in, which is not the case with Koding.
Mount your servers locally
to use your own IDE,
we want you to have
an exact replica of a
production environment.
is not an Online-IDE
!
https://blog.koding.com/koding-is-not-an-online-ide-e2693f740ce8

7. Code Editor
Ace (Successor of the Mozilla Skywriter
Project)-embeddable code editor written
in JavaScript
Eclipse Orion - browser-based
open tool integration platform
CodeMirror - is a versatile text
editor implemented in JavaScript
for the browser.
Backend Node.js
Eclipse Che - open-source Java
based developer workspace server
Node.js
Container Docker Docker OpenVZ, Docker
Technology
https://c9.io/blog/cloud9-ide-on-google-compute-engine/ EclipseChe-Workflow

8. Syntax Highlight
C++ and C#, CoffeeScript, CSS, Dart, GO,
Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript and
Node.js, Julia, Php, Python, Ruby, Shell
Script
JSON, XML, Java, HTML, PHP,
Python, Ruby, and YAML
syntax highlighting for over 100
different languages
Code
Autocompletion
C++ and C#, CSS, GO, HTML, Java,
JavaScript and Node.js, Php, Python,
Ruby, Shell Script
JavaScript , Java, HTML, CSS JavaScript , PHP, HTML, CSS
Language Analysis JavaScript and Python Java, JavaScript JavaScript
Debugging Node.js, PHP, Go*, and C++*
Java, C/C++ (via GDB), PHP (via
Zend debugger), Node.js (via
GDB)
Node.js, PHP
Mobile App - - Android, IOS
Connections
SSH Workspace, Github, BitBucket, Git
From URL
SSH Workspace, Github,
BitBucket, Git From URL
SSH Workspace, Github,
BitBucket, Git from URL, FTP,
Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon
S3, Digital Ocean, OneDrive
Features Comparison

9. • Can be hosted on own server
• Capable editor
• Great documentation
• Enables real-time online collaboration
• Runs any language - custom runners
• Terminal with sudo user
• Fantastic Java support
• Can be used for Android development
• Complete build lifecycle
• Badge to start developing in one click
• Beginner-friendly
• Self-hostable (priced)
• Has mobile apps for all major mobile OSs
• Dropbox and Google Drive support
• Unlimited revisions
• Allows inviting collaborators with a link
• Saveable, fully customizable, multiple dev
boxes
• You need a credit card to sign up
• Expensive
• Lacks a built-in Java builder and runner
• Cannot run "chroot"
• Severely limited configuration with GB
of ram and 2 GB HDD on free tier
• No custom keyboard shortcuts
• Non-optimistic UI, typing results in
letters being sent to server and back
and then they show.
• No IE support
• Lacks drag and drop support
• Very unstable
• Web terminal window doesn't always
run…
• Confusing, not user friendly
• No debugging options found (stepping
through code)
Pros + Cons
ProsCons
https://www.slant.co/topics/713/versus/~cloud9_vs_codenvy_vs_codeanywhere

10. Pricing
https://c9.io/pricing

11. Pricing
https://codenvy.com/product/index.php#pricing

12. Pricing
https://codeanywhere.com/pricing

13. Owners, Customers, Numbers

14. Demo