Robert Hoffmann
Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!
#1about 3 minutes
Why building great platform services is not enough
Developer platforms built to reduce cognitive load often fail to improve developer productivity and happiness because they only address part of the problem.
#2about 3 minutes
How developers actually spend their time each week
Developers spend less than an hour per day coding, with most of their time consumed by running and maintaining applications, troubleshooting, and long feedback loops.
#3about 2 minutes
Common pitfalls of internal platform engineering
Platforms fail when teams do not talk to their developer customers, reinvent the wheel, build leaky abstractions, and fail to deprecate old services.
#4about 3 minutes
Using frameworks to measure developer productivity
Frameworks like DORA, SPACE, and DevEx provide a multi-dimensional view of productivity, emphasizing that developer experience is the best proxy metric.
#5about 1 minute
Gathering developer feedback with a simple survey
Start measuring developer experience by prioritizing qualitative data from human feedback, using a simple survey to identify friction points across the development lifecycle.
#6about 2 minutes
Moving from coding companions to development companions
GenAI development companions go beyond code completion to assist across the entire lifecycle, improving knowledge discovery, troubleshooting, security, and tech debt remediation.
#7about 5 minutes
Demoing an AI assistant for infrastructure as code
A live demonstration shows how a GenAI assistant like Amazon Q can build a REST API using AWS CDK, from initial setup to writing code, without leaving the IDE.
#8about 1 minute
Adopting a floating platform model for efficiency
Platform teams can free up capacity for high-value work by building a lean "floating platform" that adds differentiation on top of commodity cloud and SaaS services.
#9about 2 minutes
A summary of how to truly boost productivity
To improve developer productivity, focus on the entire developer experience, use the DevEx framework to find friction, and adopt a lean platform model to enable innovation.
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