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How the Developer Experience Is Changing with Cloud Native

The complexity and speed of cloud native, Kubernetes-based software delivery make collaboration among traditionally decoupled roles — the developer, ops and site reliability engineers (SREs) — essential. More collaboration and a redefinition of traditional roles is helping to propel cloud native software development forward and break down silos, foster increased developer ownership of the full life cycle, and enable faster, safer shipping of software. This three-part series, with insights drawn from frontline interviews with developers, SREs, platform architects and leadership, explores how the developer experience has changed, influenced in part by the changing experience of operations and site reliability teams, and what is expected of each role in the cloud native development space.

This is creating a developer experience in which the developer is responsible for coding, shipping and running their own applications. Of course, developers aren’t alone in this, and part of this new experience is cooperation with SREs and ops.