Case Study: EnBW accelerates developer onboarding and simplifies cloud development with Coder

EnBW cuts onboarding from 3–4 days to 1 day with Coder

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, one of Germany's largest energy companies, faced significant challenges in its energy trading division. Their developers and data scientists were hindered by locked-down local machines, a lack of standardized environments, and a complex 3-4 day onboarding process. These issues made it difficult to reproduce incidents, access internal data services, and support teams at scale. To address this, they turned to the vendor Coder and its platform for self-hosted development environments.

By implementing Coder, EnBW provided centralized, cloud-based workspaces that eliminated the need for high-end laptops and gave developers pre-configured, standardized environments. The solution enabled elastic compute scaling, automatic idle shutdown to reduce cloud spend, and secure access for external contributors. The results were transformative: new joiners became productive on their very first day, and the platform engineering team gained the visibility needed to support over 150 developers effectively. Coder successfully cut onboarding from days to hours and significantly improved security and operational efficiency.

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG