How We Revolutionized Developer Experience With 3.5 Platform Engineers

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A three‑and‑a‑half person platform team transforms developer workflow for about 30 developers by shipping three concrete changes: 3.5 platform engineers deploy ExternalDNS in roughly a week to eliminate DNS ticket blockers, enable cert-manager to automate TLS renewals and remove rolling restarts, and adopt Argo CD GitOps to replace opaque deploy scripts, restore declarative state, and make deployments self‑serve, trading an upfront migration effort for much lower ongoing maintenance.

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1. 0:00Cognik and speaker intro
2. 1:27Starting platform engineering
3. 3:13Why dev experience matters
4. 3:56Golden path in platform eng
5. 4:58Small team limitations
6. 6:46Strategy to revolutionize DX
7. 8:10Implementing ExternalDNS
8. 12:08Automating SSL with cert-manager
9. 15:16Deploying apps with Argo CD
10. 22:44Cultural challenges in rollout
11. 24:08Rebranding and impact
12. 24:51Summary

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