How Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Enhances Software Delivery
Developer experience (DX) is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Digital demands are increasing, yet the market faces cautious IT budgeting, workplace burnout, and high resignations. The idea is that quality developer experience can help keep the remaining talent happy and increase productivity. And organizations are considering many strategies for increasing DX, such […]
Day in the Life of a Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO)
Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market. To […]
Platforming the Developer Experience
This article is part three of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in supporting a streamlined, positive developer experience. In a perfect world, the developer experience would be on that is completely free of obstacles. In the previous articles in this series, I argued that supporting and improving the developer experience […]
The Evolution of DevOps: Developer Productivity and Platforms
This article is part two in a series of three on the rise of platform engineering and its role in improving the developer experience. Read part one here. Developer experience is business-critical in organizations of all sizes and across all industries. In the first article of this series, I make the case that the cloud-native […]
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […]
Looking to the Future of Developer Experience
Developer experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]
Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience
If you’re creating a developer tool, you’re bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don’t. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, it can be challenging for another person to get started. Friction with the tools we use can contribute to burnout, inhibit creativity and […]
Internal Developer Portal: What it Is and Why You Need One
One main advantage of the cloud is that it offers developers flexibility and a self-service solution. Instead of having to contact the central infrastructure team whenever a dev team needs a new server or a cluster, the dev team can do it themselves through a simple web UI. This change drastically improves productivity. But there’s […]
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab’s namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as defined in the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework. Version 14.10 of GitLab also expands the GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes to any […]
GitLab Updates CI/CD Platform to Improve Dev Productivity
GitLab has made available a 14.9 update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds epic-linking, integrated security training, rule mode for scanning result policies and a revamped design, among other capabilities. The updated environment makes it easier to discover the state of the application development projects, GitLab said. Cindy Blake, director of […]
Will Devs Return to the Office?
Charlene O’Hanlon and Michael Davis, CRO at Rollbar, discuss findings from a recent developer survey exploring how devs feel about the return to the workplace. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TechStrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m […]
No Matter How Things Change, Have a Plan
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, for the near future, change would be constant. That conclusion was right; I’d have to ping everyone else to see what they think, […]
Bridging the Developer Experience (DevX) Gap
They say our past experiences have an impact on how we view life and our general outlook. Routine behaviours and patterns become a program that we follow day in, day out. We stop using our minds to their fullest potential and become trapped in unquestioning, continual cycles of process and emotion. The same could be […]
How to Build Healthy Engineering Teams
A common challenge today for engineering teams is the increasing complexity of their jobs and figuring out how to make it both productive and enjoyable without burning out. Over the last 10 years, the role of a software engineer has evolved drastically. Software continues to reach unprecedented scale, it is becoming more complex and customer […]
CircleCI CEO Sees Growing Need for Developer Experience Engineers
There is no shortage of titles to go with all the tasks that make up a DevOps workflow, but given the critical role developers now play within any organization, it might be time for organizations to start creating a developer experience engineer (DXE) function within DevOps teams that is specifically tasked with increasing developer productivity. […]