Caring for Developers with DevEx

Abstract

A keynote on why developer experience is the platform team's real product. The talk walks through the friction points engineers hit when adopting Kubernetes — long inner loops, opaque errors, brittle environments — and the patterns that move teams from "tool sprawl" to "paved path". Examples cover dev environments that mirror production, self-service primitives that don't leak abstractions, and how investing in DevEx pays back through faster onboarding and fewer escalations.