This is a follow-up to the open-source-as-a-service blog
post of a friend and a colleague of
mine, Stef Walter.
TL;DR of Stef’s article is that open source services are hard to contribute to.
Any first-time contributor is probably having hard times to try changes locally
in the same way the service is deployed in production.
Imagine that you’d be able to contribute to GitHub and try your change in some
playground moments later you opened your PR. Freakin’ awesome, right?! I
strongly advise you to read Stef’s blog post to understand this concept further.
In this article I’d like to discuss the practical side of this - how can one
actually achieve such glorious service contribution model?
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