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Scaling Developer Experience at Reddit, Airbnb and Amplitude

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Talkat Elevate 2023 · 2023-11-07..11-08· [developer-experience, frontend-architecture]

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name:Ankit Jain
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video:https://youtu.be/LloJrst2BOI
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summary

Panel distinguishes developer experience as a user‑focused, holistic approach from productivity metrics and recommends concrete measures like DORA metrics and the SPACE framework plus cycle and lead time. Benchmarks land around 5–15% of engineerstime devoted to DX or ~10–15% averaged, depending on stage. Monorepos work but monorepos need sustained investment or builds and flaky tests explode. Example: Reddit’s internal /hub tool retries only failing pieces of builds and reduces churn and it succeeds.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introductions
  2. 1:42Developer Experience vs Developer Productivity?
  3. 5:42Perfect Ratio Engineers / DX team?
  4. 10:42Central DX team across org VS platform/technology DX specific team
  5. 17:20Monorepos?
  6. 21:57How to measure Dev Productivity?
  7. 29:36Favorite DX tool?

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