Cloud Development Environments

Cloud Development Environments: Coder, DevPod, GitHub Codespaces, and Why Your Laptop Is No Longer the Right Place to Write Code

A hands-on guide to Cloud Development Environments (CDEs): how Coder, DevPod, GitHub Codespaces, and devcontainers work, when to adopt them, and why AI agents are making this the most important platform engineering decision of 2026.