Developer Tool History
By Alex Mackenzie at
A perennial document attempting to capture the history of developer tools. PRs welcome!
- Nix created in 2003.
- Git created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds to help develop Linux.
- AWS released EC2 in 2006.
- Heroku founded in 2007.
- GitHub founded in 2007.
- Google App Engine launched in 2008.
- Microosft Azure launched in 2010.
- Docker released in 2013.
- Kubernetes released in 2014.
- AWS Lambda released in 2014.
- GitHub moved to Kubernetes in 2017.