In this blog, we share how we improved the daily edit-build-run developer experience using DevPods, our remote development environment. We will start with some of the initial challenges, the pain points we addressed with Devpod, our architecture, and some of our recent successes in terms of adoption and cost reduction. We will finally leave you with some thoughts around the future of remote development at Uber.

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Uber's codebase in 2017 was fragmented and distributed across thousands of repositories with 10+ programming languages, 4000+ services, 500+ Web Apps, 9+ build tools and 6+ configuration tools. This fragmentation resulted in a number of developer pain points including dependency management issues, library version fragmentation in production, build tool fragmentation, and friction in code sharing.

Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development