Case Study: Skai boosts developer productivity with Coder Cloud Development Environments

Skai boosts development with Cloud Development Environments

Skai, a digital marketing and omnichannel advertising platform, faced significant developer productivity challenges. Their engineering team of over 350 struggled with a complex, multi-generational tech stack, particularly a large Java monolith. Key issues included developer onboarding taking up to five days, local IDEs frequently crashing, and inconsistent, error-prone local environment setups. This complexity hampered their ability to develop and scale efficiently.

The company implemented Coder to create standardized, self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) on their own AWS infrastructure. Using Coder’s Terraform-based templates, Skai provided developers with a consistent, reproducible workspace that integrated with their preferred IntelliJ IDEA IDE. The results were transformative: environment launch times dropped from days to minutes, developer productivity improved by 30%, and environment start time was reduced by 40%. Adoption grew rapidly to over 200 developers, enabling Skai to scale its engineering teams globally.

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