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Rethinking Software and AI/ML Development for Mission Success in Government Agencies

From AI/ML models supporting analysis to applications powering field operations, software is now part of the essential infrastructure. Yet many development teams remain constrained by environments that no longer meet today’s operational demands for speed, scale, or security.

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Everything As Code: Workspaces vs Templates

Workspaces and templates follow the “everything as code” paradigm. A template is the code that declares a development environment, and workspaces are the instantiation of development environments.

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The AI-Native Developer Stack: Rethinking Code From Ideation To Production In Minutes

This developer stack isn’t on the horizon—it’s here. No-code prototyping, AI-powered development, and cloud-based infrastructure move teams from idea to production in minutes.

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Coder Launches A Solution Partner Program Built For Impact, Designed For Growth

Coder's Solution Partner Program sets a new standard in the cloud development environment space by providing partners with a foundation to build profitable, high-impact businesses that help clients navigate their most pressing technology and productivity challenges.

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Agentic AI Meets Coder

This blog post explores why AI agents won’t deliver real value in enterprises without a secure, governed way to manage and control where they work — and why Coder provides that foundation.

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Solving GitHub Issues with Claude Code

We gave Claude Code real GitHub issues from our open-source repo to see how well it could handle actual engineering tasks. This post breaks down what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned. Including real insights on costs and where AI agents might already be useful (and where they still struggle).

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Coder and DX Partner to Unlock Developer Productivity with Cloud-Based Development

Engineering leaders no longer have to rely on gut feelings when advocating for better developer tooling. With Coder and DX, you can present clear, data-backed insights that demonstrate the efficiency gains from cloud development.

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Coder Community: Our Open-Source Offering

Coder Community is the free-to-use tier based on our open-source release of Coder. Coder is a cloud development environment (CDE), it provisions and manages workspaces so developers can quickly set up their development environments. Coder Community promotes transparency, community involvement, and is easy to deploy, making it suitable for both small teams and enterprises.

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SUSE and Coder Partner to Bring Secure Cloud Development Environments to the Rancher Ecosystem

Coder on SUSE Rancher provides secure, self-hosted development environments that centralize source code, accelerate onboarding, and optimize resource usage. By leveraging SUSE Rancher’s scalable infrastructure, enterprises can enforce security policies, ensure reliable access to development tools, and reduce operational costs with automated scaling.

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Why CDEs Should Be on IT Leaders' Agendas: Insights from the New Gartner Market Guide

Gartner®’s 2024 Market Guide for Cloud Development Environments highlights the growing adoption of CDEs, with 59% of organizations planning to phase out local workstations to improve productivity, security, and onboarding.

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Release Recap: Enhancing Oversight and Resource Management in Coder 2.19

Coder 2.19.0 is now available, and brings features designed to enhance administrative capabilities and improve visibility into resource consumption.

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A Year of Reckoning for Virtually (Unaffordable) Desktop Infrastructure

This blog unpacks the rising costs and challenges of legacy VDI solutions, showing how unsustainable pricing is driving enterprises to explore modern alternatives.

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Why Adopt a DevEx Scoring Model Prior to a Cloud Development Environment?

In this blog post, we’ll examine how developers who are satisfied with their environments tend to produce higher-quality code, collaborate better, and stick around longer. To gauge and improve DevEx, implementing a scoring model can help companies identify areas of friction and transform "detractors" into "promoters" who advocate for the tools and processes in place.

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Coder Supports Financial Institutions in Secure, Compliant Development

Read how Coder helps financial institutions keep their development environments secure while giving developers the freedom to work faster. Find out why some of the biggest banks rely on Coder to onboard new hires quickly, improve collaboration, and stay compliant.

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What Makes a Great CDE for Enterprise Users

In previous articles we covered what a CDE is, its benefits, and a few ways to develop in the cloud. Now we can talk specifically about Coder Premium, a CDE platform for enterprise user

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Insights and Key Findings from the State of Development Environments 2025 Report

Explore insights from over 550 software professionals on the evolving trends, challenges, and opportunities in development environments. This report highlights key benchmarks, the developer-admin disconnect, and actionable guidance for modernizing workflows and improving collaboration.

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Comparison of Development Environments

As a development effort grows from a single developer, to a team, to an organization of several teams, so do the demands on development environments. In this article, let’s look at the range of architectures for environments that can support the evolution of software development in an organization. We’ll start with the simplest dev environment and finish with the most sophisticated

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

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.

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Benefits of Cloud-Based Development Platforms

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.

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How Coder Enables Innovation at Leading Tech Companies

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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