I wish they had said more about the technical architecture because I am not understanding what it is about their architecture that requires that much power for a dev instance. For production, sure, absolutely, gotta have resources to scale. But for dev? Is there truly no scaled-down config that can run on a local system? Nor a way to load only a slice of the product, not the full architecture?
Even back 8-10 years ago when having gobs of microservices each in their own container was the rage, every place I worked had various ways to run specific services locally, while leaving the rest in the cloud. Or is that exactly what they have now done?
Either way, the lack of technical info makes it difficult to tell how interesting this really is.
