
Stop Managing 10 Virtual Environments. Use a Workspace.
How RapidKit's workspace architecture eliminates environment drift, cuts setup time to minutes, and lets you manage FastAPI, NestJS, and Go services from a single shared environment. I used to manage backend projects like this: /projects/ auth-api/ ← Python 3.10, venv, poetry billing-api/ ← Python 3.11, venv, pip user-service/ ← Python 3.10, venv, poetry (different poetry version) ai-agent/ ← Python 3.11, conda (someone on the team liked conda) notifications/ ← NestJS (fine, no env problem here) Every project had its own environment. Every new service meant 20–30 minutes of setup. Every git clone from a teammate ended in "it works on my machine." Sound familiar? The Fix: Shared Workspace Environment The concept is simple: one environment hosts multiple services. my-workspace/ ├── .venv/ ← shared Python env (~150 MB, once) ├── pyproject.toml ← shared dependency config ├── .rapidkit-workspace ← workspace marker ├── auth-api/ ← FastAPI project ├── billing-api/ ← FastAPI DDD project ├── no
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