Marc Paquette

Freelance Writer

In this blog, you will learn what a Cloud Development Environment (CDE) is, how it simplifies development with ready-to-use workspaces, boosts productivity, and reduces enterprise costs.


What is a Cloud Development Environment?

Rob Whiteley

AWS re:Invent 2024 was full of insights into the future of cloud-native software development. In this blog, we share key takeaways from Coder’s participation, including the growing importance of AI in development, the evolving developer stack, and AWS’s enhanced partner ecosystem. 

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What happened in Vegas

Coder Team 

Platform engineering has become a hot topic in tech. We share key insights from two Coder-hosted roundtables and the O'Reilly eBook, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders.



Navigating in the Cloud

Platform Engineers: Navigating Complexity in the Cloud Era

Matt Vollmer

Head of Product Marketing

Jess Sweet

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re pausing to look back on an eventful year for Coder and our community. This year has been marked by growth, creativity, and meaningful collaboration, all made possible by your support.

A Look Back: Coder Releases of 2024

Cloud development environments not only increase developer productivity and security but also contribute to environmental sustainability by reducing resource waste, extending hardware lifespans, and leveraging renewable-energy-driven cloud platforms.

Building a Sustainable Future with Cloud Development Environments

Coder 2.18.0 is here, bringing enhanced multi-organization management, improved provisioning workflows, and free remote desktop access with the Amazon Windows DCV Module. 

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Release Recap: Multi-Org Management and Provisioning Improvements, and Free Remote Desktop Access in 2.18.0

Market leaders are defined by their innovation, agility, and data-driven decision-making. They do this with the right tools to unlock business value. In this exclusive webinar we show how Coder and Amazon Q Developer free developers from tedious tasks so they can focus on analysis and innovation.

The Power of Advanced AI with Coder and Amazon Q Developer: Key Takeaways from our November Webinar

Remote development

Tim Quinlan

Sr Technical Marketing Manager

Discover how Coder helps developers become more productive by speeding up onboarding, reducing environment maintenance, and simplifying project switching. Learn the seven key ways it makes development efficient.

7 Benefits of Using Coder To Improve Developer Productivity

Coder will be at AWS re:Invent 2024 with a booth, demos, events, a technical session, a webinar, and we’re giving away Omega X Swatch watches. We’re looking forward to meeting you, hearing about your cloud development, and showing you why Coder is the best way to deploy development environments on your AWS infrastructure.

Join Coder at ReInvent 2024

Join Coder at AWS re:Invent 2024

Traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions hinder developer productivity and inflate infrastructure costs. In this webinar, we show a modern alternative to VDI with Coder and Island. Developers can onboard in minutes while organizations can enforce browser-level governance and reduce VDI-related costs by up to 90%.

The Modern VDI

The Modern Alternative to VDI: Key Takeaways from our October Webinar

Just like local development, Coder workspaces allow developers to use their preferred tools as they see fit. Coder’s OS-agnostic design means that if a tool runs on your workspace OS, it will work within Coder. In this blog post we’ll discuss running Windows workspaces on Coder.

Run Windows Development Environments with Coder

Coder 2.17.0 is now available. Check out what’s included in this blog post.

Release Recap: Measure Workspace Build Times in 2.17.0, New KasmVNC Module, and Other Updates

Allen Cheon

Head of Business Development

Coder has been named 2024 Integration Partner of the Year by HashiCorp!

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 Coder Named HashiCorp Integration Partner of the Year for 2024

Eric Paulsen

Sales Engineer

The chargeback model ensures that each business unit is responsible for the cloud costs incurred by their developers teams using internal infrastructure through Coder workspaces.

Coder & Enterprise Chargeback Models

Cian Johnston

Software Engineer

Built on the Dev Container standard, Envbuilder allows developers to take control of their dependencies and environments without waiting on platform teams.

Envbuilder is here: Enable developers to customize their environments with Dev Containers

Learn how Coder helps government and defense agencies securely manage their development environments while meeting strict compliance standards. With support for all developer tools and air-gapped infrastructure, Coder makes it easier for teams to stay productive without sacrificing security.

Coder Secures and Accelerates Mission-Critical Innovation in the Public Sector

In the first article of this series, we introduced the cloud development environment (CDE). Now let’s get into details about a CDE’s benefits. Like any platform, these benefits start from a CDE’s use of cloud technologies to provide a service that’s consistent, scalable, and flexible.

Benefits of Cloud-Based Development Platforms

Discover how leading tech companies like Dropbox and Skydio use Coder to empower their developers with faster onboarding, consistent environments, and the flexibility to innovate. 

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Coder Secures and Accelerates Mission-Critical Innovation in the Public Sector

Benefits of Cloud-Based Development Platforms

How Coder Enables Innovation at Leading Tech Companies