Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!

Your developers spend less than an hour a day coding. Learn how generative AI can eliminate friction and restore their flow state.

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Why building great platform services is not enough

Developer platforms built to reduce cognitive load often fail to improve developer productivity and happiness because they only address part of the problem.

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How developers actually spend their time each week

Developers spend less than an hour per day coding, with most of their time consumed by running and maintaining applications, troubleshooting, and long feedback loops.

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Common pitfalls of internal platform engineering

Platforms fail when teams do not talk to their developer customers, reinvent the wheel, build leaky abstractions, and fail to deprecate old services.

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Using frameworks to measure developer productivity

Frameworks like DORA, SPACE, and DevEx provide a multi-dimensional view of productivity, emphasizing that developer experience is the best proxy metric.

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Gathering developer feedback with a simple survey

Start measuring developer experience by prioritizing qualitative data from human feedback, using a simple survey to identify friction points across the development lifecycle.

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Moving from coding companions to development companions

GenAI development companions go beyond code completion to assist across the entire lifecycle, improving knowledge discovery, troubleshooting, security, and tech debt remediation.

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Demoing an AI assistant for infrastructure as code

A live demonstration shows how a GenAI assistant like Amazon Q can build a REST API using AWS CDK, from initial setup to writing code, without leaving the IDE.

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Adopting a floating platform model for efficiency

Platform teams can free up capacity for high-value work by building a lean "floating platform" that adds differentiation on top of commodity cloud and SaaS services.

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A summary of how to truly boost productivity

To improve developer productivity, focus on the entire developer experience, use the DevEx framework to find friction, and adopt a lean platform model to enable innovation.