Cloud-based Developer Environments, also known as CDEs, have become more and more prevalent in the toolbelt developers can leverage to be more productive. The potential to have access to high performance compute and ready to code environments defined in a way to allow reusing across teams, but there are questions that need to be asked?

- What options are there for me as a developer looking to use a CDE?
- How can CDEs make me more productive today and for future projects I may work on?
- What is onboarding experience like for these tools?

In this session, we will have an introduction to two major options in the CDE space, GitHub Codespaces and Microsoft Dev Box. These tools provide different experiences but overall can bring immense value to a developer who wants to ensure success for all their coding journeys.