The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)

Pulling the Strings

In the past few years, developer experience has become one of the biggest concerns at the C-level. Gartner found it’s the top value factor for adopting IDPs, performance engineering, CI/CD, and more core aspects of platform engineering. In 2021, McKinsey said it should be “the cornerstone of talent strategy” – and still, it’s a sticking point for a lot of software orgs. Turnover, burnout, skill gaps – symptoms abound that can often be contributed to bad DevX.

Justin Reock is Field CTO at Gradle, makers of Gradle Enterprise and Gradle Build Tool. He’s focused on the developer experience at an intersectional level – where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ combine to make development better for the people who do it. In conversation with David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet, Justin shares his perspective on where platform engineering is headed and how the future of platform engineering – up, down, or flat – depends on using tools to engineer the developer experience.

Speakers:

• David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce
• Justin Roeck, Field CTO at Gradle

Highlights:

• Justin’s career to date and starting a year of living out of an RV
• Why the future of platform engineering depends on a developer experience focus
• Instructions for organizations to adopt real practices, not just hype
• The personalities needed to make stuff like platform engineering actually work

Links:

• Download Puppet’s 2023 State of Platform Engineering Report
• Organizational Physics by Lex Sisney
• Find your nearest devopsdays event
• Justin Reock on Twitter
• Justin Reock on LinkedIn
• David Sandilands on LinkedIn
• David Sandilands on Twitter
• Read the episode transcript

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