Internal Incubation Begins
A small team within Microsoft Azure begins conceptualizing and developing a new domain-specific language to simplify ARM template authoring, aiming to address the widespread developer frustration with JSON verbosity.
Significance
This marked the genesis of Bicep, born out of a direct need to improve the Azure developer experience for infrastructure as code.
Key facts
- Year
- 2020
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Microsoft, Redmond, USA (remotely during COVID-19 pandemic)