As teams spread out around the world, having a cloud-based code hub makes a great deal of sense for several reasons. We go over the plusses and minuses below.

These services go by the moniker cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) and they deliver syntax checkers, debuggers, and other modern programming tools through any standard Web browser. Moving your development to a cloud IDE provider has risks and rewards. We describe both so you can decide for yourself if it’s worth making the move.

You can read my entire post here published in Dr. Dobbs’ Develop in the Cloud.