Charging developer batteries and sparking joy
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ING reports enabling 15,000 engineers with a unified software catalog, automation for repeatable tasks, and a docs pipeline dubbed dock as code that catches broken links and language errors before merge so documentation stays current. Backstage powers an opinionated developer journey and golden paths provide templates and guard rails that teams can fork. Measured wins include shorter feedback loops, faster pipelines, higher organic adoption and improving DORA/DevX trends.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:22Meet Eva and Julian from ING
- 1:50Vision vs daily progress
- 2:51New developer’s first-day nightmare
- 6:23Cognitive overload in legacy tech
- 7:06Developer tools like consumer apps
- 8:11Ways to welcome new developers
- 8:52Docs as code
- 10:16Backstage for software catalog
- 12:44Automating repetitive tasks
- 13:50Golden paths and guardrails
- 15:36Platform as a verb
- 17:01Measuring success organically
- 18:02Community power in platform maintenance
- 20:49Standards for scalable practices
- 21:11Drinking own champagne
- 22:33DevEx metrics
- 23:57Investing in DevEx benefits
- 24:59DevEx is continuous journey
- 25:19Q&A
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