While this is true that a local computer is often faster than a single cloud instance, I've often noticed code running on cloud instances (dev servers, etc) end up finishing their task more quickly.
It's usually because most tasks I do end up being limited by the network connection to other resources (Postgres DBs, etc). The dev server being in the same datacenter as the resource is a huge advantage in terms of both latency and bandwith.
Again, this is mostly observations from my own workloads, and other people's use cases may be different.
It's usually because most tasks I do end up being limited by the network connection to other resources (Postgres DBs, etc). The dev server being in the same datacenter as the resource is a huge advantage in terms of both latency and bandwith.
Again, this is mostly observations from my own workloads, and other people's use cases may be different.