Lapdev Blog
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Engineering
Okteto vs. Tilt vs. Signadot vs. Lapdev: an honest comparison for Kubernetes dev environments
A side by side comparison of four tools for Kubernetes development environments. Different tools solve different problems.
LLu 2026-02-17
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Engineering
The YAML janitor problem: why Kubernetes dev environments always drift and how to fix it
Most teams running microservices on Kubernetes end up maintaining separate YAML for dev environments. Here's why that breaks down and how to fix it.
LLu 2026-01-20
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Product
Lapdev has changed. Here's why.
We started Lapdev as a self-hosted Codespaces alternative. Today it's a Kubernetes environment platform. Here's the honest story of why we changed direction.
LLu 2025-11-24
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Engineering
A Performance Review of Cloud Development Environments
Lapdev outperforms cloud development environments like GitHub Codespaces and Gitpod in development tasks such as code compilation by leveraging high-performance single-core CPU.
LLu 2024-10-02
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Engineering
Full Stack Development in Rust
We used Rust for everything in Lapdev, and we'd like to talk how nice it was.
LLu 2024-03-24
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Product
Introducing Lapdev
For our first blog post, we're talking about what is Lapdev and why we built it.
LLu 2024-03-23