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title: Creating a smooth Developer Experience: from complexity to simplicity
weight: <index of talk on the day>
tags:
 - dx
 - devex
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## Why?

- Complexity in software fev is increasing
- Kubernetes itself is simple, but the landscape is gigantic
- Automation reduces complexity, but creating automation adds complexity

## Cognitive Load

- Instrinsic Load: Natural complexity of a task
- Germane: Effort needed to build expertise and optimise workflows
- Extraneous: Unnecessary load caused by poor tools or processes combined with distractions

## Example for the rest of the talk

1. Dev: Needs Environment
2. Ops: Sets up the env in multiple steps
3. Dev: Receivs new env

### Problems

- Maybe the ops person has no time
- Doing things via tickets takes a shit ton of time

## Our Lord and savior: Platform Engineering

1. Centralize
2. Automate: Automate the devops cycle
3. Simplify: Solve complexities associated with the cloud
4. Efficency: Avoid bottlenecks
5. Quality and Reliability
6. Self-Service

### Circular Economy

1. When a team creates a service, it can it to a marketplace
2. Another team cann use it, kustomizue it and publish the customized version to the marketplace

## Metrics

- The invisible engine behind every innovation -> No improvement with out proving it
- Who wants to know what?
  - User: Wants to measure the platforms impact on dx and productivity (Feedback, Provisioning time, ...)
  - Org: How does the platform support org efficiency and delivery speed (Time to market, cost savings, ...)
  - Platform: Stability and team effectiveness (Mean Time to Resolution, uptime, ...)
- Metric-Frameworks: DORA (DevOps Research and Assesment), SPACE (Satisfaction Performance, Activity, Communication and Efficiency)

## And how do we drag AI into this?

- Frameworks kann make dx measureable
- Challenge: NEw tools and processes can create friction
- AI Can help with: Assistance, Code generation, Debugging, Conversational explaination instead of reading docs yourself

## Tips

- Adopt the right mindset (Why a platform, what do i need and how would it impact exsisting metrics)
- Invest in a effortles selfservice experience
- Gradualy move habits towards the platform - don't force everything at once
- Create solutions that people enjoy using