Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!
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Claim: stop building monolithic in-house platforms and measure developer experience instead. The talk gives the devx: feedback loops cognitive load flow framework, shows tooling choices (Backstage, Kubernetes, readymade cloud services) and cites McKinsey and a $900B software engineering impact. It reports <20% adoption of coding companions in large enterprises and a 57% faster task completion with them, describes a working development companion that reads docs and code, generates fixes and CLI commands, and shortens feedback loops.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Developer productivity focus
- 4:22Modern tooling complexity
- 7:13Platform engineering spiral
- 12:07Developer experience framework
- 17:26Measuring DevX
- 23:27AI impact on productivity
- 29:54Beyond coding
- 38:08Testing and troubleshooting
- 40:56Call to action
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