Coder

Coder is a developer of an enterprise platform designed to enable software development on remote servers. The company's product allows engineers to more efficiently time configure, secure, and power development environments.

Coder uses cloud computing environments to create secure and scalable development environments accessible from multiple devices at any time. And the platform works to automate the development environment so developers can focus on writing code. The development environments are created from centralized image repositories that can be updated and pushed out to all environments so developers can use their preferred machines without worrying about configuration drift and without the development and the machine not working together.

Coder works to keep the company's source code and data secured in authorized repositories to reduce the risk of source code leaks and so it can be installed in air-gapped networks. The system is capable of being worked on remotely. And developers can work with their preferred languages and tools, such as VS Code, Jupyter Notebook, IntelliJ, PyCharm, and deployed on AWS, GCP, and Azure. The company allows users to use their own infrastructure—running on Kubernetes; deploying on any cloud provider; and working with any Git provider, including GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket.

Their solution for enterprise development, Coder Enterprise, is intended for use in complex and regulated software development environments, such as government. Their enterprise features implementations maintained in an organization's internal cloud infrastructure and works in restrictive air-gapped environments for web developer and data scientist productivity tools in zero trust environments. Coder has achieved authority to operate (ATO) on multiple DoD platforms.

The company's public sector solution has been used by federal governments, state and local governments, and education institutions. For education institutions, Coder offers training at scale, offering students a platform on which they can learn to code without worrying about building a coding environment. And the company suggests the platform's ability to work in any operating system reduces the troubleshooting load on teachers.

Coder was founded in 2017 by Ammar Bandukwala, Kyle Carberry, and John Andrew Entwistle with the goal of helping developers to write more code. The three founders first met online and started building game servers at the age of thirteen. Over the next several years, they evolved their collaboration to begin building DDoS mitigation platforms, peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, and websites that attracted over a million monthly visitors. Immediately after high school, they began working on creating developer tools.

Symphony AyasdiAI is an artificial intelligence platform for financial services, with large banks using their products to analyze market and operational risks and detect patterns of potential money laundering. In 2020, there was an understanding that the company's development environment was disjointed. After reviewing several solutions, including developing an in-house open-source code-server, Symphony AyasdiAI discovered Coder, which offers an enterprise solution built on code-server, which in turn works to make reproducing and managing consistent development environments in the cloud.

Symphony AyasdiAI runs Coder on Amazon EKS, which allows remote developers to connect through a VPN to access their environments and use VS Code through a browser. Since the environments are cloud-based, developers do not need to worry about using powerful computers to run compilation and assembly. They also set up multiple Docker images, allowing a developer to select an appropriate image for a project and allowing Coder to launch a new container configured in the same way.