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    This document summarizes Unmesh Gundecha's presentation on building an awesome developer experience (DX). It defines DX as focusing on the experience of developers using products, libraries, frameworks and tools. It discusses elements of great DX like developer workstations, documentation, SDKs, APIs and tools. Examples provided include payment processing software, cloud providers, IDEs, API development tools and test automation tools. The presentation covers phases of DX like developer onboarding and application onboarding, and how to improve these experiences through standardized configurations, single sign-on, templates and infrastructure as code. It demos the Backstage platform for creating "golden paths" for developers and applications. Metrics for measuring DX are discussed by relating them to user

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    TAQELAH Lightning Talks 2020

    Building an
    Awesome Developer
    Experience (DX)
    Unmesh Gundecha
    Senior Architect, DevOps, DX and
    Testing

    https://about.me/upgundecha
    Agenda
    • What is Developer Experience (DX)?
    • Elements & benefits of a great Developer Experience
    • Examples
    • Phase of DX
    • Developer Onboarding
    • Application Onboarding
    • Measuring DX
    What is Developer Experience?

    Developer Experience is the equivalent of User Experience when the


    primary user of the product is a developer. DX cares about the developer
    experience of using a product, its libs, SDKs, documentation, frameworks,
    open-source solutions, general tools, APIs, etc.

    Source - What Is DX? (Developer Experience), Albert Cavalcante, https://link.medium.com/nZ7H1gEyw9


    Benefits of DX
    • Save your team’s resources to focus what’s business
    really needs
    • Accelerate innovation and time-to-market
    • Gain onboarding agility and integration with fewer
    efforts
    • Increase developer satisfaction ☺
    Elements of DX
    • Developer workstations
    • Code editor, Integrated Development Environment
    (IDE)
    • Documentation, wiki’s
    • SDKs (Software Development Kit)
    • APIs - developer portals
    • CLIs (Command line applications)
    • Design tools
    • Work management tools
    • Monitoring tools
    Examples

    Platforms Tools

    Payment processing Test automation tool for


    Cloud Provider Cross platform IDE API development tool
    software modern web applications

    • Best in class developer • First choice for cloud • Cross platform IDE • Swiss army knife of API • Getting popular with
    portal • Continuous Innovation • Built on open source and development frontend developers
    • Cross platform SDK’s • Built for different JavaScript • Clean UI • Native support for Node,
    • Extensive documentation developer personas – • First choice among web • Supports debugging, JS
    and code examples Console, API, SDKs developers testing and monitoring • Great debugging support
    • High availability • Clean documentation, • Plugins/Extensions APIs • Neat documentation,
    • Test environment & test sample code and • Extensibility • User community examples and getting
    data example projects • User community • Easy to onboard started guides
    • Easy to onboard • Training and certifications • Easy to onboard • Neat API
    • Free credits! • Engaged user community
    • Highly available • Extensibility
    • Easy to onboard • Easy to onboard
    Phases
    • Developer Onboarding
    Did you have same “WOW” experience with development tools to
    get you started at your workplace?

    Fragmented tools

    Multiple configurations

    Mul0ple creden0als

    Hard to install

    Hard to update
    How to build a great onboarding experience?

    • Give developers a starting point - learning paths, knowledge trails


    • Use personas to create collection of tools, configurations, access
    rights and scripts to automatically deploy tools & settings on
    developer workstations (tools – Homebrew, Chocolatey, Terraform, Chief,
    Ansible…)
    • Enable single sign on (SSO) for online tools and self service from
    day one!
    Application Onboarding
    New ways of working, Agile, DevOps

    You build it, you run it!

    Source - A Conversation with Werner Vogels, https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142065


    Application/developer Journey

    Idea

    Retire Plan

    Depreciate Setup

    Maintain Design

    Operate Code

    Monitor Build

    Deploy Test
    How to build a great onboarding experience?

    • Build template repositories, build pipelines, & deploy


    infrastructure as code, tests (tools - GitHub templates, GitHub Actions,
    Jenkins Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, CDKs…)
    • Build online initializers to generate new application definition,
    code repositories, build and deployment pipelines using the
    templates (tools -- Backstage, Spring Initializer…)
    • Enable monitoring and observability by default
    • Use modern documentation tools (tools - Markdown, Docusaurus)
    • Keep everything in single view and self serviceable
    Meet, Spotify Backstage

    https://github.com/spotify/backstage
    Golden Paths

    Source - https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/18/what-is-backstage
    60 seconds demo of Backstage

    Source - https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/18/what-is-backstage
    Service View

    Source - https://github.com/spotify/backstage/issues/2071
    Measuring DX
    UX Pillars DX Pillars

    • Usability • [DX] Function = [UX] Accessibility


    • Accessibility • [DX] Stability (Uptime) = [UX]
    Credibility
    • Findability
    • [DX] Ease of use = [DX] Usability
    • Credibility
    • [DX] Clarity = [UX] Findability

    Source - https://medium.com/@albertcavalcante/developer-experience-metrics-46b1d087811d
    Let’s make developers happy!

    Thank you!

    Q&A in #It-unmesh

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