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Developer Tool History [Perennial Post]

By Alex Mackenzie at

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of developer tools. PRs welcome!

  • UNIX created in 1971 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
  • 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.
  • Hive developed at Facebook in 2007.
  • Hive contributed to Apache in 2008.
  • Google App Engine launched in 2008.
  • Homebrew created by Max Howell in 2009.
  • Microosft Azure launched in 2010.
  • Spark developed at AMPLab at University of California and open sourced in 2010.
  • AWS Redshift launched in 2012.
  • Snowflake founded in 2012.
  • Docker released in 2013.
  • Sourcegraph founded in 2013.
  • Kubernetes released in 2014.
  • AWS Lambda released in 2014.
  • Sourcegraph Seed raised in 2015.
  • Yandex open sources ClickHouse in 2016.
  • GitHub moved to Kubernetes in 2017.
  • Snowflake IPO in 2020.