July 2021 Summaries

Remote development has become increasingly popular due to the shift towards remote work, with developers being well-suited for this model. Cloud-based development environments offer several benefits such as accessibility from anywhere, use of any device, and secure source code management. To ensure success in a remote development team, it is crucial to monitor and update workflows, maintain social connections, and embrace collaboration across different time zones and backgrounds. Coder's platform supports these best practices by providing cloud-powered development environments that can be accessed from any device while keeping the source code secure within the company's infrastructure.

Coder 1.21 introduces a new networking model that ensures end-to-end encryption, reduces latency, and improves round-trip performance between users and workspaces. The latest version also includes SSH Connection Caching for faster workspace access, a refreshed workspace providers page with simplified management flow, the ability to cancel workspace builds from the dashboard, support for RStudio IDE, and an installation guide for OpenShift. Future releases will add more workspace provider types beyond Kubernetes.

A Meetup is being hosted at the Austin Office, with an invitation for interested attendees or speakers. The event will take place on September 24th, 2024. Solutions Architect and Customer Success team member from Coder discusses a recent inquiry about using Spyder IDE within a Coder workspace. They explain that while Coder natively supports various editors and IDEs, it can also be used with different IDEs by leveraging SSH file sync or VNC. The author demonstrates how to use VNC in a Coder workspace for desktop applications like Spyder IDE.

code-server is an open source tool that enables developers to run Visual Studio Code (VS Code) remotely, accessible through a web browser. It allows for developing on remote servers and has been used by various professionals including frontend developers and DevOps engineers. Deploying code-server can be done quickly and easily on different platforms such as Linux VMs or Docker containers. The tool offers flexibility in terms of software and IDEs, allowing users to use it alongside other tools like Jupyter Notebooks or JetBrains Projector.