CDE Universe 2023: the state of Cloud Development Environments

The first-ever in-person conference on Cloud Development Environments (CDEs), CDE Universe, was held in San Francisco this June. Engineers from various companies such as Uber, Slack, and Shopify shared their experiences with building and deploying internal CDE platforms for their teams. These platforms have been crucial in improving developer productivity and managing codebases that are too large to handle on a single laptop. Companies like Uber and Slack reported high adoption rates of cloud development environments, attributing benefits such as reduced onboarding time, low maintenance, and easier scaling. The future of CDEs is promising, with more companies considering building or buying their own platforms.