Samuel Harrold
stharrold
Recent Tech Decisions
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  • Useful to me as a data scientist

    March 23, 2016 23:51

    • I use a Cloud9 micro plan and connect SSH workspaces to Google Compute Engine instances.

    • For me, Cloud 9 has good documentation, and it's relatively quick to install on my Debian instances using the Cloud 9 install script.

    • I prefer a cloud-based IDE since I don't want to spend resources on my local or remote machines running or maintaining an IDE.

    • As of Dec 2015, Cloud9 doesn't support debugging in Python. However, this hasn't been a problem for me since I use pdb for debugging and pytest for testing. I use the IDE mostly for code navigation, autocomplete, and managing packages with many files.

    • Related blog post with example usage: Running an IPython Notebook on Google Compute Engine from Chrome

    Ease of Use Documentation Reliability Support

  • Useful to me as a data scientist

    March 24, 2016 00:23

    • I use Google Compute Engine instances as flexible, reproducible infrastructure that scale with my data science tasks.

    • Between Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, I chose Google Cloud for its intuitive UI. SSH within the browser is very convenient.

    • Related blog post with example usage: Running an IPython Notebook on Google Compute Engine from Chrome

    Ease of Use Documentation Reliability Support