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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!

Christian Denich , Robert Hoffmann

Are your developers spending less than two hours a day writing code? Discover why perfect platform abstractions secretly kill productivity and how a holistic DevEx approach restores creative flow.

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Moving beyond basic platform services for productivity

Because developers face friction everywhere in the software lifecycle, building great platform services alone is insufficient for peak productivity.

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Managing cognitive load with internal developer platforms

Providing platform capabilities and interfaces helps reduce the massive cognitive load created by complex modern toolchains.

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Analyzing time spent maintaining applications versus coding

Developers lose significant daily coding time to maintaining applications, troubleshooting, and learning complex infrastructure abstractions.

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Avoiding wasted effort in platform feature prioritization

Building overly complex custom abstractions instead of leveraging available cloud services causes massive team overhead and developer inefficiency.

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Measuring developer experience to drive team productivity

Shifting from purely quantitative telemetry to qualitative human-centric frameworks like DevEx ensures the right focus on developer flow and satisfaction.

#6 about 2 min

Gathering qualitative data to identify lifecycle friction

Using sentiment-based questionnaires uncovers specific bottlenecks in continuous deployment tools, requirements gathering, and daily development tasks.

#7 about 2 min

Leveraging development companions to solve tedious tasks

AI development companions go beyond automated code completion to accelerate knowledge discovery, explain errors, and retire legacy technical debt.

#8 about 6 min

Accelerating infrastructure as code with generative AI

Prompting an AI assistant directly inside the integrated development environment creates deployment scaffolding and wires cloud services without breaking context.

#9 about 3 min

Building lean developer platforms on commodity services

Basing platform architectures on managed cloud offerings frees up internal engineering capacity to support uniquely differentiating developer capabilities.

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Shifting focus from platform engineering to developer productivity

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Shifting focus from developer productivity to developer experience

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Measuring developer experience to eliminate rigid workflow friction

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Connecting developer happiness to business value and productivity

Markus Eisele Markus Eisele · World Congress 2024

3:25 min

Introducing the developer experience framework dimensions

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1:43 min

Summarizing the organizational benefits of platform engineering

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