Devops Devex

DevOps & DevEx

Developer Experience Unleashed

Explore the intricate world of developer experience (DevEx) and its impact on the software development process. This book delves into the critical components of DevEx, such as documentation, tooling, API design, developer support, performance, and reliability, providing actionable insights and strategies to help organizations create development environments that foster productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction among developers. The main topics you'll review include the evolution of software development methodologies, the intersection of user experience (UX) and DevEx, and an in-depth exploration of the critical components of DevEx. You'll also look at practical approaches to improving DevEx, real-world examples of organizations that have successfully transformed their developer experience, and a discussion of DevEx's future trends and challenges. These topics are crucial as the software development landscape has become increasingly complex and competitive. Developer experience is no longer a luxury but a necessity for organizations seeking to attract top talent, drive innovation, and stay ahead in the industry. As the line between UX and DevEx continues to blur, it is imperative to understand how these two aspects are intertwined and how they can synergistically contribute to the success of software projects. Moreover, these topics are particularly relevant now, as remote work and distributed teams become more commonplace, making it even more critical for organizations to provide developers with the resources, tools, and support they need to be successful. Developer Experience Unleashed will inspire you to recognize the critical role of DevEx in the software development process and to adopt best practices that foster a synergistic environment where developers and users can thrive together. What You'll Learn - The evolution of software development methodologies - Key DevEx concepts and components - Strategies for improving DevEx - The interconnected nature between DevEx and user experience - Current trends and challenges facing teams and businesses - Future trends and opportunities in DevEx Who This Book Is For Software development professionals, team leads, managers, and executives interested in understanding and improving the developer experience within their organizations.

Effective Platform Engineering

Build the kind of software engineering platforms developers love to use! An effective developer platform means one thing: productivity. Effective Platform Engineering introduces platform engineering as a discipline, teaching you what goes into a great developer platform and then showing you how to develop your own. In Effective Platform Engineering, you’ll learn to deliver: • Improved business outcomes • Product management strategies • Secure, scalable Kubernetes-based engineering platforms • Effective Service Level Objectives to boost trust and adoption • Modern control plane patterns that streamline developer workflows Effective Platform Engineering shows you how to establish and administer the kind of platforms that reduce a dev team’s workload, improve consistency, and accelerate software delivery. Organized in three parts—foundations, building, and scaling—it blends mental models, patterns, and runnable examples to help you go from MVP to production-grade platform. You’ll learn how to treat platforms as products and demonstrate their value by improving engineering outcomes and delivering measurable business impact. You’ll love the book’s informed guidance and practical insights on satisfying stakeholders and driving organizational success. Foreword by Kief Morris. About the technology Platform engineering is the discipline of building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that automate and simplify the software development lifecycle. IDPs provide self-service interfaces to tools and services for infrastructure, deployment, security, observability, and governance, and reduce the need for developers to master complex technologies like Kubernetes. Because they match the specific needs of an organization, well-engineered IDPs can reduce development time by half while delivering better software. About the book With Effective Platform Engineering you’ll be able to design, build, deploy, and scale a custom IDP. You’ll discover how platform engineering differs from DevOps and learn to create a platform that evolves with changing requirements. Diagrams, code samples, and exercises help you visualize important concepts. Along the way, you’ll explore critical topics like gathering requirements and establishing realistic service level agreements (SLAs). What's inside • Automated application workflows • Scalable Kubernetes-based platforms • A well-designed control plane • Custom APIs About the reader For software engineers, SREs, and DevOps engineers. About the author Ajay Chankramath is the Founder and CEO of Platformetrics. Nic Cheneweth and Bryan Oliver are Principal Consultants at Thoughtworks. Sean Alvarez is the CTO of Life Sciences at Brillio. Table of Contents Part 1 1 What is platform engineering? 2 Software-defined products and architectures 3 Measuring your way to platform engineering success Part 2 4 Governance, compliance, and trust 5 Evolutionary observability 6 Building a software-defined engineering platform 7 Platform control plane foundations 8 Control plane services and extensions Part 3 9 Architecture changes to support scale 10 Platform product evolution A Solutions to the exercises