Bill Doerrfeld

Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, researching new technology, and writing on topics like DevOps, REST design, GraphQL, SaaS marketing, IoT, AI, and more. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.

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Best of 2024: Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Reference Architectures

December 30, 2024 | IDP, internal developer platform, McKinsey, platform engineering, Puppet, reference architecture

IDPs have been the talk of the town. But what does an IDP actually look like? Bill Doerrfeld explains ...

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How GitHub Approaches Internal Developer Experience

February 8, 2024 | best practices, developer experience, devex, DX, github, Productivity, software development

Bill Doerrfeld explores how GitHub approaches DX and instills these traits into its software development culture ...

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Does Using AI Assistants Lead to Lower Code Quality?

February 6, 2024 | ai, coding assistants, generative AI, quality, software development, technical debt

AI assistants are changing the way code gets made, and much of this is for the better. But what's the impact on code quality? ...

Can Improving Developer Experience Actually Reduce Costs?

January 29, 2024 | culture, developer experience, devX, DX, Productivity, talent

DX promises a more satisfied workforce, reduced burnout and lower employee churn. But can improving developer experience also reduce costs? ...

Will the Rise of Generative AI Increase Technical Debt?

January 25, 2024 | developer experience, devops, generative AI, LLMs, technical debt

The explosion of new AI APIs, libraries and frameworks has the potential to increase technical debt and, in the process, overwhelm DevOps teams ...

How Supergraphs Help Consolidate Data Access

January 11, 2024 | APIs, data management, GraphQL, observability, supergraph

If used to aggregate various data sources and APIs into a unified graph, GraphQL could become 'one schema to rule them all' for enterprises ...

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The State of Internal Developer Portals (IDPs)

January 9, 2024 | developer experience, developer productivity, DX, IDP, internal developer portal, platform engineering

Have internal developer portals (IDPs) successfully enhanced productivity without sacrificing developer experience or developer satisfaction? ...

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Best of 2023: Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses

January 4, 2024 | ai, Build, coding assistant, copilot, generative AI, microsoft

As we close out 2023, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2023. Microsoft has ...

How Generative AI Can Streamline Code Documentation

December 5, 2023 | best practices, continuous documentation, documentation, generative AI, software development

Generative AI is set to benefit the documentation and transformation of legacy code and potentially create new documentation in parallel with new builds ...