Cloud development environment adoption stories: Shares.io

In this interview with François Ruty, CTO and co-founder of Shares.io, he discusses how the company transitioned to Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) to prioritize developer experience and effective software development. The adoption of Gitpod as their CDE was driven by inconsistencies in behavior with Docker across platforms and performance issues on hot reloading. Ruty highlights the benefits of using Gitpod, including quick onboarding, ease of configuration, shareability of environments, and ephemeral dev environments. He also mentions that every employee at Shares now uses Gitpod, as it enables sharing URLs for debugging together and allows for easy spinning up of dev environments from production branches. Ruty shares his experience with introducing new tools to the company and how Gitpod has improved their hiring process through live coding sessions.