Turn back time a bit and try to remember the first project you started or joined, and the onboarding experience. How long did it take to install the d

How teams can use the Gitpod integration in GitLab to speed up their development process

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Turn back time a bit and try to remember the first project you started or joined, and the onboarding experience. How long did it take to install the development environment on your local machine?

We talked about our own onboarding experiences into software development, and thought about sharing our favorite tips with GitLab users.

Everyone starts fresh, and often best practices are just "learning by doing," requiring documentation in the same moment. Programming languages and application architectures are also different - a C++ backend environment has different requirements than a Ruby on Rails web application.

Start with defining the requirements and stages. Oftentimes they are equivalent to CI/CD pipeline stages but executed in your own environment.

You want to run the application in a development environment quickly, everything else with staging and deployments continues to run in your CI/CD pipelines. Their implementation and availability should be on your to-do list.

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