2022 Budget-Friendly Developer Setup
Survival guide for developers when everything is expensive :(
In the current macroeconomic downturn, tech companies are cutting costs on cloud/SAAS to prepare for the worst.
Although, at the moment, the pain level isn’t high for individual developers, it’s wise to be prepared and cautious about expenses.
For developers, hardware is an inevitable yet significant expense, so let’s optimize.
Requirements
Portability
Escaping from a 2-year pandemic, many will want to convenience of working from various locations and breathing some fresh air, which means the setup should be easy to carry around and have good battery life.
-1 for mobile workstations and desktops.
Good performance
For development, we don’t want to wait 10 minutes for a compilation/IDE indexing/emulator to start, so the performance should cover most use cases.
Good compatibility
The environment needs to be compatible with most of the development flows.
-1 for ARM variants like Mac M1/2.
