Case Study: Skydio reduces cloud computing costs by 90% with Coder

Skydio Takes Development to the (Literal) Clouds

The drone designer and manufacturer Skydio faced significant challenges with its development workflow, including week-long developer onboarding, high cloud computing costs, and inefficient management of resources for AI/ML training. To address this, Skydio partnered with the vendor Coder to implement its platform for managing cloud development environments.

By utilizing Coder's multi-cloud and flexible workspace templates, Skydio automated the provisioning and shutdown of underutilized virtual machines. This solution from Coder resulted in a dramatic 90% reduction in cloud computing costs and slashed the time for a new developer to make their first commit from a week down to just one hour.

Skydio

Elliot Graebert

Director of Engineering, Infrastructure