Moving software development to the cloud ☁️

Microsoft's investment in GitHub Codespaces is helping to popularize the concept of automated, cloud-based dev environments. Since its inception in July 2017, Gitpod has been pioneering this approach and believes that fully-automated developer environments will be standard for professional developers within the next five to ten years. Gitpod is an open-source platform that works with multiple clouds and supports GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. It offers powerful dev environments with a small ecological footprint and is fast due to its prebuild feature. The company aims to automate the provisioning of dev environments that blend in with existing workflows, integrate into existing infrastructure, and run on any cloud or personal clusters. Gitpod's ultimate goal is to democratize software development by allowing anyone to get into a productive coding state quickly and securely.