If I were to keep my remote instance running 24/7, I would pay roughly $35/m. This makes the setup economically efficient. Should I temporarily need more RAM due to a large model to train, I can expand (and then contract) what I need the moment I need it, without touching my rig.
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I can code on my razor-thin iPad, with an XHDR display, long battery life, and relatively small internal drive, while working in a Linux environment with CUDA drivers and access to Nvidia GPUs or Google TPUs. By delegating the computing power to specialized providers it’s possible to unlock a tremendous amount of flexibility, all the while not having to fight against typical trade-offs like CPU-vs-battery, HDD-vs-price, battery-vs-weight. Technically speaking you might attempt to dockerize parts of the Adobe Creative Cloud, but it’s legally murky and worryingly hackish (and it doesn’t sound right anyway).Įven more interesting is the hardware independence. All the while I can keep Lightroom, Cinema 4D, and Photoshop on my local macOS machine.
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Software-wise, a fully remote environment helps avoid dual-boot madness and incompatible-drivers fighting: my dev environment sits on an Ubuntu server, making tooling dramatically easier.
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# A matter of software and hardware independence This opens several new doors and opportunities. Same goes for smaller companies, like Replit, trying to turn IDEs into a multiplayer experience.Ĭoding through your own server no longer bounds you to a local device, as it conceptually separates the machine you physically interact with from the machine running the actual code. Microsoft is going in the same direction with Visual Studio Code, now available online - in particular on any GitHub repository. Of course, the idea is not unique to JetBrains. Effectively, a centralized form of workflow: a mainframe. The concept is bold and compelling: moving the development environment to a remote server, instead of keeping it on a local machine. It took me less than an hour, from hitting “Create instance” on AWS to having a fully-fledged AI project running on my iPad Pro. I wanted to see how I might offload some heavy computing tasks, like training and evaluating large machine learning models, off of my local computer, without compromising my coding user experience. During an idle Sunday evening, a few weeks ago, I played with JetBrains’ Projector: it’s IntelliJ - one of the most powerful IDEs around - installed on a remote server and accessible through the browser.