https://latini.dev/tags/local-development/Recent content in Local-Development on F. Latini - IT EngineerHugoenThu, 05 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-paved-road-starts-at-git-push/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-paved-road-starts-at-git-push/<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - Ask a platform team what their road covers and they will describe everything that happens after <code>git push</code>: the pipeline, the deploy, the dashboards, the rollback. Ask what happens before the push and you get a link to a README. That is backwards, because the inner loop - clone, run, change something, see it work - is where developers spend most of their day, and it is the one part of the job every engineer pays for separately, in every repository, every time they move teams. A three-day local setup is not a rite of passage. It is a platform defect with no owner, documented in a file nobody has followed from scratch in a year. Pave it the same way you paved the rest: one command from the template that takes a clean machine to a running service, an explicit decision for every dependency (run it, fake it, or reach a shared one), local credentials from identity rather than a <code>.env</code> pasted in Slack, seed data that actually exists, and a measured clone-to-running time that a stranger can hit.</p>