Developer Experience can drive business growth
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Argues that improving developer experience — via self-service developer platforms, high automation with guardrails, clear documentation and integrated toolchains — directly shortens time-to-market and increases launches, but platforms often "work" until legacy systems and partner contracts make migration prohibitively costly. Calls out GitHub’s productivity framing (speed × happiness × impact) and the community pushback on McKinsey metrics, and proposes a simple benchmark: revenue per employee to compare business impact across peers while keeping short feedback loops and collaboration as multipliers.
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