DevEx on Steroids: 5 Techniques to Scale Developer Experience
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Five practical techniques and concrete results: treat DevEx as a product, solve the single worst pain first, roll changes out iteratively, measure the right outcomes, and present a single pane of glass. Demo shows Backstage templates + GitHub Actions + Kubernetes creating a microservice end to end and publishing docs, and a homegrown Neo catalog plus an accelerator called konark/project catalyst. Reported impact includes onboarding cut to 15 minutes from weeks at companies with thousands of engineers and measurable drops in API integration and ticket resolution time.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Developer experience
- 9:17Scaling DevEx challenges
- 14:56Five techniques for DevEx
- 15:17Adopt product mindset
- 20:55Evolutionary approach
- 26:20Self-serviceability
- 31:59Single pane of glass
- 35:09Measure what matters
- 40:12Case studies
- 44:40Backstage demo
- 47:32Summary
- 47:53Q&A
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