1 year ago

“My mandate is being moved from ‘DevOps’ to ‘Developer Experience.’ Has anyone else made this switch?” That’s how https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/yxxeen/my_mandate_is_being_moved_from_devops_to/ from a few months ago kicks off. This 2023 top-down priority from a shiny new CTO came with no elucidation of even what developer experience is.

The industry is still thrashing out the definition of platform engineer, but it definitely centers on improving that developer experience.

This can be achieved, Bryant suggests, by swapping a platform engineer with a developer — the platform team will learn from the embedded dev, while the platform engineer will gain hands-on empathy for their customer.