Keynote: Software Delivery and Developer Experience in the Age of Platform E...
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Argues that building internal platforms (examples: Netlify, Gatsby, Vercel, Render) is the practical response to the developer experience gap, claiming platform teams create paved roads/golden paths that standardize CI/CD and security while improving velocity (cites DORA-style benefits). Notes tradeoffs: platform work shifts the maintenance burden to platform engineers, is hard to staff and get org buy‑in, and is difficult to design for hundreds of teams; recommends treating platforms as productized, measurable deliverables.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 3:10Audience participation and agenda
- 5:17Software delivery basics
- 7:03Why developer experience matters
- 10:31Addressing developer experience gap
- 13:01Platform engineering rise
- 15:47Internal platforms and users
- 17:12Challenges of internal platforms
- 18:55Closing thoughts on platforms
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