Ok, next feature on the SheepCat 🐑🐈 roadmap!
What if you could push a sanitized, professional update directly to your company's ticket system enhanced by local Ai?
Thinking an enhanced version of your notes that keeps your PM off your back?
#Jira #Agile #DevEx #BuildInPublic #Neurodivergent #Python
For all those that came to my talk at @devnexus.bsky.social about the differences between #DevEx and Dev Productivity, thank you for your attentiveness and great questions and discussion. I've linked the slide deck below! I can't wait for next year's #DevNexus!
speaking.jmeiss.me/S11RDF/devel...
AI tools are increasing output velocity. But they are also making the cost side of the equation harder to see.
The speed gain is real. The interest is just not on any balance sheet yet.
open.substack.com/pub/serefaya...
#EngineeringLeadership #TechnicalDebt
#AIEngineering
#VelocityDebt #DevEx
A cinematic portrait of a distinguished, elderly male Field CTO / Architect with a serious, analytical expression. He is dressed in a dark obsidian-colored three-piece suit, waistcoat, tie, and black leather gloves. He is carefully examining a massive, intricate, glowing golden IDP (Internal Developer Platform) interface made of complex data lines and grids. His left gloved hand is pressing against a section of the shimmering golden glass panel, visually feeling the constraint of the structure he designed. On the interface, charts, graphs, and key text including 'IDP', 'GOVERNANCE MANDATE', and 'PLATFORM CONTROL' are visible in glowing gold data. The background is a moody, dimly lit futuristic brutally server hall with massive racks in cold blue light, contrasting with the warm, rich golden cage structure. The ground is dark reflective obsidian. The mood is serious, analytical, and constrained.
You didn't build a Developer Platform. You built a Golden Cage.
IDPs built for control instead of consumption will always fail.
The architectural verdict:
platformengineering.org/blog/golden-...
#IDP #DevEx
Friction is a powerful signal! It often reveals brittle processes that won’t survive as #AI accelerates the pace of work.
This #InfoQ #podcast is about identifying & removing Developer Friction, the subject Dr. Nicole Forsgren’s new book, “Frictionless”.
🔗 bit.ly/4d2wd5S
#AIarchitecture #DevEx
10-minute deployments vs. hours doing it manually!
#AWS launched Agent Plugins for AWS, giving AI coding agents specialized deployment skills.
“Deploy to AWS” →
✅ Full pipelines
✅ Architecture recs
✅ Cost estimates
✅ Infra code
⇨ bit.ly/3OMilCU
#AIAgents #IaC #DevEx #AutomatedDeployment
Platform Engineering + DevEx: where “paved roads” beat bespoke scripts. 🚀
New blog: https://f.mtr.cool/yxsotzfcbg
#PlatformEngineering #DevEx #APIs #DevOps
While “culture” is seen as a soft skill, top-performing orgs know it’s the Engine of productivity & stability.
In #SoftwareDevelopment, #Culture can make or break teams.
Explore how a strong culture drives innovation & brings out the best in software professionals.
📖 bit.ly/4cn2mVv
#DevEx
🏗️ La mayoría de los equipos de plataforma crean productos sin saberlo
Un error común que pasa desapercibido en la ingeniería de plataformas.
https://thenewstack.io/internal-platforms-are-products/
#PlatformEngineering #InternalDeveloperPlatform #DevEx #RoxsRoss
🔴 Today ~3PM CET 🗓️
Me & William are gonna talk Developer Experience
www.youtube.com/live/yqSVm2C...
#devex #devrel #podcast
I finally got around to converting a talk that I have given a few times into a blog post about some of the key differences between #DevEx and Developer Productivity.
dev.to/jerdog/devel...
🎙️ DevEx Talks – Episode 1 is live!
Welcome to the first episode of #DevEx Talks, hosted by our Developer Advocate, @didiviking.bsky.social. In this episode, she’s joined by Marcos Placona, former Head of Developer Relations at Twilio and founder of DevRel Bridge and LinkIntel.
Can AI agents build production-ready full-stack apps? Yes! See how TiDB powers scalable backends and automates development.
Full deep dive: https://ow.ly/Lajl50YcX9h
#TiDB #AIAgents #FullStack #DevEx
Have you used the GitHub Copilot SDK yet?
If not… you probably should 👀
Repo 👉 github.com/github/copil...
Tonight I had a bit of fun wiring it into some GitHub Actions workflow..
Example workflow screenshot below 👇
#GitHub #Copilot #DevEx #PlatformEngineering #AIinDevOps #GitHubActions
⚡ "10 Tiny Steps to #PowerShell #Productivity Mastery" by @stephanevg.bsky.social was a whirlwind of wisdom:
📚 Learn broadly
🛠️ Tune VS Code
🔁 Use Git & build processes
🧠 Embrace soft skills & focus
🤝 Share, grow, repeat
🎟️ psconf.eu
#PSConfEU #DevEx #VSCode
🐳 🐙 Docker Compose Tip #19
Seamless local development!
compose.yml + compose.override.yml = automatic merging
Production: docker compose -f compose.yml up
Dev: docker compose up (includes override)
Details: lours.me/posts/compose-tip-019-override-files/
#Docker #Development #DevEx
Naming things is hard. 15 mins into a meeting, you realize the PM, VP, and Eng all have a different definition of "Account." 🤦♂️
That's the Tower of Babel effect, and it’s killing your velocity.
Read why your team needs a Shared Vocabulary: docu.codes/blog/importa...
#DevEx #SoftwareEngineering
Nick Tune’s take on coding-agent workflows is spot on: success isn’t about autonomy, it’s about structure.
Agents need boundaries, feedback loops, and human review to scale beyond demos.
medium.com/nick-tune-te...
#AgenticAI #AIEngineering #DevEx #SoftwareArchitecture #LLMs #PlatformEngineering
I am enjoying Frictionless but it does seem like after the book was done, someone from high above said "you need more AI" so they sprinkled some AI mentions gratuitously through the book 😅 #DevEx
Visual Git for devs who want to see what's happening.
AI assistance for repetitive tasks.
Engineering insights for leaders who need to know where bottlenecks are.
Git, without the busywork.
#GitTools #DevEx
Merci pour l'article, beaucoup de choses intéressantes !
IMO : tant que les devs et les ops sont vus comme des centres de couts, peu d'investissements intéressants seront faits dans leur DevEx et OpsEx (pas trouvé de meilleur terme...)
#DevEx #OpsEx
Declarative infrastructure config hides complexity, letting devs focus on what matters: application code.
• Unified YAML per service → validate costs early
• Independent CI + centralized CD → team autonomy meets deployment consistency
⇨ #InfoQ article bit.ly/3Ngp8UJ
#DevOps #DevEx #IaC #Security
A tornado chart showing how platform-leaning or devex-leaning various features and activities are, such as compute runtime (mostly platform-leaning), change control (even split), and productivity metrics (devex-leaning).
Developer Experience (or DevEx if you're one of the cool kids) is a brand new idea... from 1956.
By retracing our steps we can choose a better way forward. Read my hand-cranked article that leans into more than 70 years of history and learning.
octopus.com/blog/dev...
#PlatformEngineering #DevEx
I had a problem. I had accumulated too many MCP servers over time. So I asked Kiro to improve its own configuration and group tools into Powers that are loaded in context only when needed. Self-optimization is a new pattern.
dev.to/aws/how-i-us...
#AWS #Kiro #DevEx #AI
Onboarding is more than Admin. It’s a Leadership Choice. The first few weeks in a new role, team, or context shape confidence, trust, and momentum. Fast access to tools, platforms, and information isn’t a perk. It sets expectations about how quickly someone can become effective and how supported they feel along the way. ⏱️ When access is slow or context is missing, friction appears quickly. Uncertainty and anxiety are common, especially when joining a new team and trying to understand how things really work. Energy gets spent navigating the system rather than learning within it. 🧠 This is where Developer Experience and Employee Experience meet. Thoughtful onboarding removes friction and provides context. Not just what tools exist, but why they exist and how work flows. That context helps people sense-make and begin to navigate with confidence. 🌳 Leadership means investing in capability. Capabilities shouldn’t be built only when they’re urgently needed. They need to be created, cultivated, and maintained - in a constant state of readiness for use and deployment. Like an effective runbook, an effective onboarding pack needs to pass the 3 AM test. 🧠 That often means prioritising investment in resources, material, and experience over the latest urgent priority. The former creates a system that mitigates exceptions. The latter just reacts to them. 🚀 Done well, this reduces overall lead time to productivity. People move faster because they know what question to ask next and where to go for answers. Good onboarding sets people up to succeed. It’s 'Team Craft'. And it’s not a Project - it’s Ops.
Onboarding isn’t Admin - it’s a Leadership Choice. The first weeks shape trust, confidence and momentum. Fast access and clear context reduce friction and anxiety, speeding time to productivity. Good onboarding is #TeamCraft. And it's not a Project - it's Ops. #Onboarding #Leadership #DevEx
As 2025 wraps up, the #InfoQ #podcast unpacks the biggest shifts in software:
⇨ AI workflows
⇨ Architectural complexity
⇨ Sociotechnical systems
⇨ Platform products
Plus, a look ahead at what 2026 has in store.
🎧 bit.ly/4pv6wxE
#SoftwareTrends #AI #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #DevEx #MCP
Before:
• "Where is this referenced?" → Grep. Scan. Parse. Blown out context. Low-confidence answer.
After:
• "Show me circular dependencies" → ⚡️ Done.
• "What is the impact of this change?" → ⚡️ Done.
• "Find any dead code" → ⚡️ Done.
Less token waste. More signal.
#TokenEconomics #AICoding #DevEx
We did it! 🥳 Our blog post on simplifying the #Kubernetes DevEx with KRO made the Google Cloud Top Blogs of 2025! 📈✨
If you haven't seen the post that kicked it all off in January, check it out here:
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
#K8s #KRO #GoogleCloud #CloudTech #DevRel #PlatformEng #DevEx 🛠️🔥
Many IDPs stall not for technical reasons, but because they’re treated as infrastructure projects instead of products with real customers: your developers. This piece breaks down 7 common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Read more:
www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-to-...
#IDP #infrastructure #k8s #devex
