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)