97348: An Overview to Lightweight and Browser-Based Development Using VS Code
Project and Program:
Application Development,
DevOps
Tags:
Proceedings,
SHARE DC 2025,
2025
The chip shortage and the need for remote development during and after the
pandemic pushed the trend of providing low footprint, lightweight and remote
development environments rapidly forward. Large development organizations such
as Uber, Slack, Shopify, or Stripe are reporting on their positive experiences
moving hundreds to thousands of their developers into the Cloud with personal
containers accessed remotely. In this presentation we want to walk you through
how these development tools work and how they can be applied to z/OS Enterprise
Application development projects eliminating the need to deploy gigabytes of
tools, dependencies, and source code to all your developer machines. Learn about
the VS Code architecture and how it is enabled for connecting to remote systems,
run standalone in the browser, as well as run entirely in the Cloud on platforms
such as GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, or Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces. We explain
the differences between these platform choices and show you end-to-end z/OS
development workflows in these environments for edit, build, deploy, and debug.
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