Few minutes back we have seen our cross DC region connections getting timed out. It got fixed by itself after few minutes on its own. We were struggling to find the reason. Hence wanted to know if there is a world wide traffic status?
Development requires running many dependent services, like databases, caching servers, queues, other dependent (micro) services etc. Do you run them on your machine? Or you use other server infrastructure to run them while only running the specific service you are developing on your machine? How do you enforce consistent dev environment across your team mates?