How to Build Better Developer Platforms
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Claim: developers spend less than one hour coding and lose 21% of their time to inefficiencies. The session measures DevEx with DORA and DevX-style metrics, cites a 30,000-developer survey, and demos building a TypeScript REST API with AWS CDK and Amazon Q that provisions API Gateway and Lambda, deploys successfully, and returns "hello from Lambda." Actionable points: run platforms as products, reduce cognitive load with paved roads, automate toil, and survey developers at scale.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:17Developer productivity matters
- 4:47Developer challenges today
- 9:08Automotive lessons for platforms
- 10:34Rise of internal platforms
- 11:36Good developer platform
- 12:43Platforms as products
- 13:26Amazon’s working backwards
- 16:20Good developer day
- 19:35Measuring dev experience
- 22:25Dev experience as proxy
- 23:09Holistic dev experience
- 25:00Generative AI companion
- 26:26Platform engineering demo
- 33:50Key learnings
- 35:18Q&A
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