#34: Don’t forget DevEx

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Don’t forget DevEx

Fernando Villabla , Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec

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Bad DevEx results in:

? Burnout: Developers spend most of their energy completing tasks that don’t produce immediate value, become unhappy, and leave.

? Slow software delivery: Too many processes and bad tooling slow down deployment cycle.

? Bad DevEx increases developer churn rate.

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DevEx is a cultural approach that aims to simplify all areas that don’t contribute to the creative output and the delivery of applications for developers. It is achieved by simplifying or eliminating the following concerns for developers:

? Configuration management: configuration drift and difficulties finding resource configuration for workloads.

? Infrastructure provisioning:? learning terraform, IaC, or the temptation to do ClickOps.?

? Environment configuration: Creating new environments is easy, no need to specify configuration for each and every environment.

? Tedious processes: Processes that take too many steps or require too many third parties.

? Cognitive load: Good DevEx implements Standardization by Design, easing the task of making too many long-term judgment calls that require a lot of planning and thinking.

? Tooling with bad UX: Tooling that has a bad user experience, even if it offers more features, is very tiring to use because it takes longer to learn and is more tedious to use. Good DevEx picks and designs tools that favor usability over a disjointed feature stack.?

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Platform Engineering aims to implement Internal Developer Platforms, which often have a product owner and/or follow UX principles to make them user-friendly. Internal Developer Platforms solve the issues that make poor DevEx.?

DevEx is not exclusive to DevOps. DevOps cultural practices still apply but DevEx put a sharper focus on developers user experience.

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Luca