dxday 2024
who it's for
developer experience engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, developer portal maintainers, site reliability engineers, developer advocates, people operations
topics
documentation driven development; RFC workflow and database; Backstage developer portal; TechDocs and plugin ecosystems; GitHub Copilot Chat; workspace agent code context; inner loop and outer loop; cloud development environments; Tilt hot reload to Kubernetes; Terraform compile-to-infra; GitHub audit logs into BigQuery; onboarding playbook with automated feedback
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Revolutionizing DevEx through Documentation Driven Development | Abiodun Olowode | 39m |
Claims that document first code later speeds feedback and reduces rework, supported by a real workflow: RFCs, ERDs, UMLs, pseudo‑code and an RFC database with… | ||
| Embracing Developer Portals in Software Development | Vincenzo Scamporlino, Talita Gregory Nunes Freire | 38m |
Claims that a developer portal cuts fragmentation into a single UI are backed by a concrete build: Backstage open source launched March 2020, runs as a Node… | ||
| If your code could speak, what would it tell you? | Maxim Salnikov | 41m |
Demos show GitHub Copilot Chat actually parsing your open files, explaining selected code, refactoring a function and sometimes crashing the VS Code popup… | ||
| Yellow Brick Code: Lessons from The Wizard of Oz on Enhancing DevEx | Thomas Khal... | 27m |
Claims concrete wins and real failures: an early Backstage rollout fails for timing and front‑end/ownership gaps despite contributed plugins; custom frameworks… | ||
| Where devs are challenged, what devs want and where DevEx is going | Francesco Corti | 53m |
Summarizes 25+ years of experience and a market trajectory: Backstage and Docker feature as real touchpoints, AI assistants evolve into a team of Devin AI… | ||
| The 'outer loop' is dead: How AI and cloud development will revolutionize DX | L. Bichard | 38m |
Claims that the outer loop is dead and that cloud dev environments plus AI will let commits happen after CI not before Specific demos show Tilt doing hot… | ||
| Launch Pads: Cultivating Company Culture from Day 1 | Paolo Pustorino | 42m |
Describes concrete changes at SparkFabrik: a company Playbook and welcome kit, a lightweight HR platform that assigns tasks and automated feedback cycles, a… | ||
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