DevX Conf 2022
who it's for
developer experience engineers, platform engineers, developer advocates, engineering managers, frontend engineers, backend engineers, site reliability engineers
topics
remote development with devcontainer.json; cloud development environments (Gitpod); Kubernetes remote dev workflows (Okteto); terminal autocomplete tooling; Supabase edge functions (Deno); edge SSR and streaming server rendering; integration testing library design; code review best practices; developer onboarding in a day; Backstage developer portal usage; progressive delivery with observability; designing developer-facing products
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to DevX Conf 2022! | Michael Aring, Pauline P. Narvas | 13m |
Gitpod describes a concrete goal: automates provisioning of development environments and integrates with editors to let tools follow the user, not force a… | ||
| Remote Development Panel | Kirill Skrygan, Christian Weichel, Nik Molnar, Christof Marti, Johannes Landgraf | 45m |
Panel argues remote development reduces setup friction and can save ~5 hours per developer per week by automating environments; major implementations use a… | ||
| Maybe It's Time to Rethink How You've Been Developing? | Arsh, Ramiro Berrelleza | 30m |
Claims that deploying development workloads to Kubernetes yields instant, production-accurate feedback: Okteto CLI replaces the running container with a dev… | ||
| Implementation and use cases of modern rendering patterns | Lydia Hallie | 21m |
Explains concrete implementations: use getStaticProps + CDN caching for fast TTFB, swap to on-demand ISR to revalidate pages via webhooks instead of periodic… | ||
| Autocomplete for the Terminal | Brendan Falk | 28m |
Fig builds an IDE‑style autocomplete for the terminal that runs as a lightweight desktop app and webview (Towery) and integrates into iTerm, VS Code… | ||
| The Next Generation of Developer-First Products | Zeno Rocha | 44m |
Frames developer-first history into four generations with dates and concrete examples: 2000–2009 (Atlassian Heroku Cloudflare Splunk Dynatrace GitHub MongoDB)… | ||
| Building DevX Teams, my story | Cirpo Cinelli | 42m |
Started with 3 engineers and grows to 12 on the DevX team, owning ~76 services and ~100 GitHub repositories while handling ~2–3 deploys per day and ~4,000… | ||
| Code Reviews is more than a crushing Developer Experience | Shanea Leven | 30m |
Code reviews succeed when the author delivers a readable maze and a clear map: split giant changes into small PRs (one project moved from a single massive diff… | ||
| The Radiating Circles of DevX | Shawn Swyx Wang | 26m |
Presents a concrete mental model: a core product as the drill head and concentric circles of integrations, docs, content, community that must be coherent… | ||
| Peer Learning: Your developer adoption safety net | Ana Hevesi | 29m |
Developer docs act as automation and need social exception handling: peer learning communities turn “stuck” users into adopters by providing rapid debugging… | ||
| Designing Supabase Edge Functions | Inian Parameshwaran | 20m |
Supabase Edge Functions run user code globally with Deno Deploy as the runtime, deployed to 29 regions and claiming zero millisecond startup while scaling to… | ||
| DevX & Product-Led Growth: how they enable each other & your dev community seamlessly | Amara Graham | 41m |
Argues that Developer Experience and Product-Led Growth are complementary and shows how Camunda organizes DX with DRIs for documentation, style guide… | ||
| How to make a world-class integration testing library? | Oleg Šelajev | 47m |
Testcontainers is a Docker-based integration test library that claims to make integration tests as simple and repeatable as unit tests by providing… | ||
| Closing Day 1 of DevX Conf 2022 | Michael Aring, Pauline P. Narvas | 05m |
Day one wraps with concrete takeaways: a demo of fake brandon's presentation as a clear, usable tool; two programmed tracks labeled Stage A (internal DX) and… | ||
| Welcome back to DevX Conf Day 2! | Michael Aring, Pauline P. Narvas | 10m |
Hosts open a free virtual conference, announce $22,000 OSS fund and sponsor-supported donations, and run two parallel recorded stages so sessions can be… | ||
| Panel: DevX Past & Future | Chad Metcalf, Andrea Luzzardi, Arnaud Porterie, Ben Firshman | 46m |
Panel traces Compose from a PaaS YAML prototype to a tool that concretely solves multi-service dev workflows and ships as the porcelain layer over Docker’s… | ||
| Remote development in a remote-first world | Tarun Pothulapati | 40m |
Remote development moves project-specific environments into the cloud so code, editor extensions and build steps live in a repo file like gitpod.yml or… | ||
| How Spotify engineers use Backstage daily and keep their lives simple | Himanshu Mishra | 39m |
Backstage is an open platform Spotify built and open-sourced (donated to CNCF) to cut fragmentation: templates let teams create in minutes with CI/CD… | ||
| The balancing act of delivering high quality DX | Victor Savkin | 29m |
Nx is an extensible JS build system that follows explicit design principles: configuration is data, never break customers, dont over optimize for initial cost… | ||
| Remote development can improve your developers remote work experience | Maya Kaczorowski | 24m |
Argues that rolling out reproducible dev containers (Gitpod, GitHub Codespaces, prebuilt deps and dotfiles) cuts onboarding time, enables pair programming with… | ||
| Designing for developers | Boris Kirov | 32m |
Defines good developer experience as an effective, joyful way to get work done and shows concrete patterns: a Fibonacci program mapped from human code to… | ||
| Zed: Collaborative coding at the speed of light | Nathan Sobo | 48m |
Zed is a fast Rust-based code editor with a private alpha planned that proves real-time pair editing works: live multi-cursor collaboration, editable… | ||
| What does it mean to create API products at scale? | Michael Bleigh | 24m |
Firebase runs 15+ products across 6+ platforms and manages 100+ API services by enforcing a documented change process that averages under two weeks, handled by… | ||
| Warp and the future of the terminal | Zach Lloyd | 29m |
A new terminal rebuilds the runtime around GPU-accelerated Rust and groups each command with its output into command blocks that are copyable, permalinkable… | ||
| Progressive Delivery with Observability | Alayshia Knighten | 14m |
Claims a concrete pipeline: a JavaScript Express app instrumented with OpenTelemetry and auto-instrumentation, deployed via CircleCI and observed in Honeycomb… | ||
| How to onboard people in a day | Wilson Mar | 52m |
Claims that new hires are productive by day two by shifting onboarding work before day one and automating setup: use Jamf auto-deploy to ship laptops with… | ||
| End of DevX Conf 2022! | Michael Aring, Pauline P. Narvas | 11m |
Conference wraps with concrete outcomes: five swag winners announced, sponsors listed and all sponsorship money directed to open source donation voting, and… | ||
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