Case Study: Dropbox boosts developer productivity with Coder

Dropbox Syncs 1000 Developers with Coder

Dropbox, a leading provider of cloud file management, faced a challenge in maintaining its difficult-to-scale, in-house solution for provisioning development environments for its 1000 developers. The legacy system was cumbersome to update and manage, supporting a wide array of environments from cloud and machine learning to desktop targets. To solve this, they turned to the vendor Coder and implemented its platform for cloud development environments.

By adopting Coder, Dropbox successfully migrated all 1000 developers in just four months. The solution provided a flexible, UI-driven platform that significantly improved the developer experience and operational efficiency. The results were substantial, including a 30% reduction in cloud computing costs and a dramatic decrease in startup times for some projects from an hour down to 15 minutes. Coder enabled the small Dropbox team to manage environments at scale with greater ease.

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Matt Kulka

Infrastructure Software Engineer