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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. What is a Cloud Development Environment?

    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.

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  12. What happened in Vegas

    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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  13. Platform Engineers: Navigating Complexity in the Cloud Era

    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.

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  14. A Look Back: Coder Releases of 2024

    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.

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  15. Building a Sustainable Future with Cloud Development Environments

    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.

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

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

    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.

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  18. 7 Benefits of Using Coder To Improve Developer Productivity

    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.

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  19. Join Coder at AWS re:Invent 2024

    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.

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

    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%.

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