Prathyusha Ramanjaneyulu, a Senior Software Engineer at Celonis, shares how she solved the dev environment problem for 600 engineers. After trying full local setups (weeks to configure) and shared VMs (1.5 days setup, 3+ hours/week maintenance, shared breakage), she evaluated Telepresence and mirrord. She chose mirrord because it impersonates a pod process rather than joining the cluster network, requires no daemon management, operates within the private network, and leaves no persistent cluster footprint. The result: environment setup dropped from days to 15 minutes, feedback loops shrank from an hour to seconds, and engineers stopped blocking each other thanks to mirrord's HTTP traffic filtering, queue splitting, and DB branching. At 600 engineers saving just one hour per week, that's 30,000 hours of capacity reclaimed annually.
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The Nature of the Bottleneck at Scale #What she had tried #The Selection Criteria for Scaling Local Development #What changed #Closing remarks #147.6K Impressions3 Comments