What's Your View on Cloud Development? And Where's the Trade-Off?

If you're adding complexity to your local development environment, that's usually a red flag for me. We'll use fire sore as an off line data base for mobile applications. But if you want to re rewrite your landof functions to use cloud, run indstead. It's not just a dragon drop sort of thing. You don't just change a connection string and now it's all all good.