Network full builds might be faster, but would incremental builds be? Would developers still be able to use their favourite IDE and OS? Would developers be able to work without waiting in a queue? Would developers be able to work offline?
If you have a massive, monolithic, single-executable-producing codebase that can't be built on a developer machine, then you need network builds. But if you aren't Google, building on laptops gives developers better experience, even if it's slower.
i hate to say it but working offline is not really a thing at work anymore. it is no one thing, but a result of k8s by and large. i think a lot of places got compliant when you could just deploy a docker image, fuck how long that takes and how slow it is on mac
That depends entirely on the tech stack, and how much you care about enabling offline development. You can definitely run something like minikube on your laptop.
If you have a massive, monolithic, single-executable-producing codebase that can't be built on a developer machine, then you need network builds. But if you aren't Google, building on laptops gives developers better experience, even if it's slower.